Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

desjardins.com

Services financiers aux particuliers - Desjardins

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

394 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

199 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Desjardins.com page load time and found that the first response time was 394 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

desjardins.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,990 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

desjardins.com

394 ms

global.css

231 ms

entete.css

149 ms

navigation.css

168 ms

contenu.css

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Desjardins.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (834 ms) belongs to the original domain Desjardins.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Desjardins.com main page is 2.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 171.4 kB

  • Original 201.0 kB
  • After minification 182.9 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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 171.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 987.1 kB
  • After minification 946.8 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. Desjardins images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 878.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 651.1 kB
  • After compression 181.3 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 878.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 273.5 kB

  • Original 317.0 kB
  • After minification 259.2 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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. Desjardins.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 273.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (27%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Desjardins. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

desjardins.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

desjardins.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

desjardins.com 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

    FR

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Desjardins.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Desjardins.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Desjardins. 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: