Access canadapost.ca. Mailing and shipping for Personal and Business

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,750 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.2

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

1/100

10%

www.canadapost-postescanada.ca

219 ms

home.page

658 ms

foundation-config.css

16 ms

normalize.css

21 ms

foundation.min.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Canadapost.ca, 2% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (658 ms) relates to the external source Canadapost-postescanada.ca.

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Canadapost.ca main page is 7.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 302.6 kB

Original 333.6 kB
After minification 329.5 kB
After compression 31.1 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 302.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 150.8 kB

Original 4.4 MB
After minification 4.2 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Canada Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

Original 2.5 MB
After minification 2.5 MB
After compression 630.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 520.8 kB

Original 633.3 kB
After minification 633.1 kB
After compression 112.5 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Canadapost.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 520.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canada Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.