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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

canadapost.ca

Mailing and shipping for Personal and Business | Canada Post

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

821 ms

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About Website

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

Mail letters, ship parcels, market your business and sell online with Canada Post. We offer services for individuals and services for businesses of all sizes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canadapost.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canadapost.ca performance score

11

Measured Metrics

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%

Network Requests Diagram

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.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (36%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (30%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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.

Network Requests Diagram

www.canadapost-postescanada.ca

www.canadapost-postescanada.ca

219 ms

home.page

home.page

658 ms

foundation-config.css

foundation-config.css

16 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

21 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

30 ms

cpc-ds.css

cpc-ds.css

77 ms

cpc-scp.main.css

cpc-scp.main.css

56 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

92 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

25 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

90 ms

cpc-scp.main.js

cpc-scp.main.js

90 ms

cpc-ds.js

cpc-ds.js

90 ms

satelliteLib-f2fc6f00da802a0747b6ffed3c12e3931bfca496.js

satelliteLib-f2fc6f00da802a0747b6ffed3c12e3931bfca496.js

86 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

81 ms

csp-reports

csp-reports

441 ms

CCMOPC-17706-hero-desktop.png

CCMOPC-17706-hero-desktop.png

19 ms

CCMOPC-17706-hero-tablet.png

CCMOPC-17706-hero-tablet.png

76 ms

CCMOPC-17706-hero-mobile.png

CCMOPC-17706-hero-mobile.png

81 ms

ccmopc-18005-personal-hero-desktop.jpg

ccmopc-18005-personal-hero-desktop.jpg

78 ms

ccmopc-18005-personal-hero-tablet.jpg

ccmopc-18005-personal-hero-tablet.jpg

70 ms

ccmopc-18005-personal-hero-mobile.jpg

ccmopc-18005-personal-hero-mobile.jpg

71 ms

ccmopc-17990-personal-hero-desktop.jpg

ccmopc-17990-personal-hero-desktop.jpg

67 ms

ccmopc-17990-personal-hero-tablet.jpg

ccmopc-17990-personal-hero-tablet.jpg

68 ms

ccmopc-17990-personal-hero-mobile.jpg

ccmopc-17990-personal-hero-mobile.jpg

70 ms

link-chevron-default.svg

link-chevron-default.svg

218 ms

track.svg

track.svg

71 ms

fpc.svg

fpc.svg

83 ms

far.svg

far.svg

76 ms

fpo.svg

fpo.svg

89 ms

mail-forwarding.svg

mail-forwarding.svg

78 ms

ccmopc-18009-secondary-hero.png

ccmopc-18009-secondary-hero.png

96 ms

Account-desktop-2x.jpg

Account-desktop-2x.jpg

160 ms

phone-4.svg

phone-4.svg

86 ms

track.svg

track.svg

288 ms

snap-ship.svg

snap-ship.svg

91 ms

Icon_check.svg

Icon_check.svg

262 ms

Flaterate-desktop-2x.jpg

Flaterate-desktop-2x.jpg

106 ms

Flatrate-tablet-2x.jpg

Flatrate-tablet-2x.jpg

116 ms

MyMail-desktop-2x.jpg

MyMail-desktop-2x.jpg

119 ms

snow.svg

snow.svg

124 ms

service-alert.svg

service-alert.svg

127 ms

support.svg

support.svg

134 ms

link-chevron-white.svg

link-chevron-white.svg

275 ms

small-business-cross-sell-customer-mobile.svg

small-business-cross-sell-customer-mobile.svg

142 ms

commercial-cross-sell-customer-mobile.svg

commercial-cross-sell-customer-mobile.svg

152 ms

shop-desktop-woman2x.png

shop-desktop-woman2x.png

202 ms

shop-tablet-woman2x.png

shop-tablet-woman2x.png

230 ms

shop-mobile-woman2x.png

shop-mobile-woman2x.png

215 ms

postage-stamps.png

postage-stamps.png

217 ms

flat-rate.png

flat-rate.png

225 ms

CanadianaTextWEB-Regular.woff

CanadianaTextWEB-Regular.woff

312 ms

CanadianaTextWEB-Light.woff

CanadianaTextWEB-Light.woff

353 ms

CanadianaTextWEB-SemiBold.woff

CanadianaTextWEB-SemiBold.woff

309 ms

CanadianaTextWEB-Bold.woff

CanadianaTextWEB-Bold.woff

307 ms

coins.png

coins.png

229 ms

stamps.png

stamps.png

246 ms

icon-personal.svg

icon-personal.svg

240 ms

blog-card-chevron-personal.svg

blog-card-chevron-personal.svg

354 ms

chevron-left.svg

chevron-left.svg

371 ms

21902-total-solar-eclipse-blogcard-en.jpg

21902-total-solar-eclipse-blogcard-en.jpg

294 ms

online-shopping-returns-2x.jpg

online-shopping-returns-2x.jpg

296 ms

six-to-do-tasks-2x.jpg

six-to-do-tasks-2x.jpg

292 ms

unlock-convenience-2x.jpg

unlock-convenience-2x.jpg

371 ms

chevron-right.svg

chevron-right.svg

344 ms

Accessibility Review

canadapost.ca accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

canadapost.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

canadapost.ca SEO score

93

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

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 Canadapost.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 Canadapost.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

canadapost.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Canada Post. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: