Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

elections.ca

Élections Canada en ligne - Elections Canada On-line

Page Load Speed

586 ms in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

426 ms

Page Rendered

88 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Elections content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about elections.ca

Élections Canada est l'organisme indépendant et non partisan chargé de la conduite des élections et des référendums fédéraux.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elections.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 514 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elections.ca performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

elections.ca

72 ms

elections.ca

114 ms

splash5.css

26 ms

launch-e34f760eaec8.min.js

22 ms

id

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Elections.ca, 21% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Dpm.demdex.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (172 ms) relates to the external source Assets.adobedtm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.4 kB (69%)

Content Size

625.5 kB

After Optimization

194.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Elections.ca main page is 625.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 537.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 48.9 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 38.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB

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. Elections images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 391.9 kB

  • Original 537.5 kB
  • After minification 537.5 kB
  • After compression 145.5 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 391.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 657 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 715 B

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. Elections.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 657 B or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (25%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

elections.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

elections.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

elections.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Elections.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Elections.ca main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Elections. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: