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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

govdeals.ca

Government Surplus Auctions - govdeals.com

Page Load Speed

56.9 sec in total

First Response

9.3 sec

Resources Loaded

47.3 sec

Page Rendered

318 ms

About Website

Visit govdeals.ca now to see the best up-to-date Govdeals content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about govdeals.ca

GovDeals' online marketplace provides services to government, educational, and related entities for the sale of surplus assets to the public. Auction rules may vary across sellers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Govdeals.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 9.3 sec and then it took 47.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 17 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

govdeals.ca performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.govdeals.ca

9262 ms

j.php

28 ms

app.css

9062 ms

all.css

48 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Govdeals.ca, 6% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Govdeals.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.7 kB (69%)

Content Size

207.0 kB

After Optimization

64.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Govdeals.ca main page is 207.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 90.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 90.0 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 26.0 kB, which is 29% 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 75.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Govdeals needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 67% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 75.9 kB
  • After minification 74.3 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 43.2 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 34.9 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. Govdeals.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.7 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (38%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Govdeals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 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

govdeals.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

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

govdeals.ca best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

govdeals.ca SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Govdeals.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 Govdeals.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 Govdeals. 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: