Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

finance.gov.sk.ca

Ministry of Finance | Ministries | Government of Saskatchewan

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

348 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

712 ms

About Website

Welcome to finance.gov.sk.ca homepage info - get ready to check Finance Gov best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about finance.gov.sk.ca

The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the provincial budget and manages the government’s banking, investment and public debt functions.

Visit finance.gov.sk.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Finance.gov.sk.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 348 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

finance.gov.sk.ca performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finance

348 ms

styles.css

364 ms

css

59 ms

modernizr.min.js

265 ms

jquery-3.6.1.min.js

290 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Finance.gov.sk.ca, 15% (5 requests) were made to Static.cloud.coveo.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (468 ms) relates to the external source Saskatchewan.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

566.4 kB

After Optimization

485.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Finance.gov.sk.ca main page is 566.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 321.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 63.5 kB

  • Original 76.1 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.6 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 63.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 112.5 kB
  • After minification 112.4 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. Finance Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 321.7 kB
  • After minification 321.7 kB
  • After compression 307.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 56.2 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. Finance.gov.sk.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (62%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Finance Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

finance.gov.sk.ca accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

finance.gov.sk.ca best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

finance.gov.sk.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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Finance.gov.sk.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Finance.gov.sk.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 Finance Gov. 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: