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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

firstcanadian.ca

First Canadian Financial Group | Proudly protecting Canadians since 1988

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

177 ms

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About Website

Welcome to firstcanadian.ca homepage info - get ready to check First Canadian best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about firstcanadian.ca

First Canadian Financial Group is proud to offer a range of products to protect Canadians. These products include Life Insurance, Group Benefits and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstcanadian.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 115 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstcanadian.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstcanadian.ca

115 ms

home.firstcanadian.ca

896 ms

ayc1pxp.css

87 ms

style.min.css

43 ms

styles.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Firstcanadian.ca, 69% (52 requests) were made to Home.firstcanadian.ca and 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) relates to the external source Home.firstcanadian.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 483.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstcanadian.ca main page is 4.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 58.8 kB
  • After minification 55.8 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. 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 46.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 419.3 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Obviously, First Canadian needs image optimization as it can save up to 419.3 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 378.6 kB
  • After minification 378.6 kB
  • After compression 373.0 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 12.8 kB

  • Original 199.7 kB
  • After minification 199.7 kB
  • After compression 187.0 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. Firstcanadian.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (84%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Canadian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

firstcanadian.ca

firstcanadian.ca

115 ms

home.firstcanadian.ca

home.firstcanadian.ca

896 ms

ayc1pxp.css

ayc1pxp.css

87 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

43 ms

styles.css

styles.css

66 ms

front.min.css

front.min.css

94 ms

vc_extend.css

vc_extend.css

96 ms

styles.css

styles.css

104 ms

claims.css

claims.css

108 ms

wptestimonial.css

wptestimonial.css

122 ms

style.css

style.css

106 ms

style.css

style.css

123 ms

jquery.fullpage.min.css

jquery.fullpage.min.css

55 ms

all.css

all.css

66 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

177 ms

ionicons.min.css

ionicons.min.css

128 ms

webfonts.css

webfonts.css

130 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

161 ms

jquery.multiscroll.css

jquery.multiscroll.css

134 ms

venobox.css

venobox.css

145 ms

sinister.css

sinister.css

154 ms

umbg.css

umbg.css

159 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

159 ms

main.css

main.css

168 ms

main-bg.css

main-bg.css

188 ms

main-responsive.css

main-responsive.css

189 ms

icon-manager.css

icon-manager.css

190 ms

Defaults.css

Defaults.css

192 ms

all.css

all.css

76 ms

style.css

style.css

198 ms

v4-shims.css

v4-shims.css

77 ms

wpglobus.css

wpglobus.css

200 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

202 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

211 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

206 ms

snazzymaps.js

snazzymaps.js

213 ms

jquery.fullpage.min.js

jquery.fullpage.min.js

61 ms

jquery.easings.min.js

jquery.easings.min.js

72 ms

scrolloverflow.js

scrolloverflow.js

71 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

239 ms

js

js

89 ms

js

js

124 ms

ie.css

ie.css

250 ms

index.js

index.js

251 ms

index.js

index.js

252 ms

claims.js

claims.js

252 ms

api.js

api.js

56 ms

common.js

common.js

305 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

268 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

245 ms

p.css

p.css

23 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

216 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

215 ms

index.js

index.js

207 ms

wpglobus.min.js

wpglobus.min.js

204 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

215 ms

css

css

78 ms

css

css

87 ms

css

css

105 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

73 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

91 ms

FCIC-Leaf-e1514410854298.png

FCIC-Leaf-e1514410854298.png

70 ms

image-3.png

image-3.png

143 ms

FCIC-Website.png

FCIC-Website.png

70 ms

Millennium-Website.png

Millennium-Website.png

70 ms

Mobile_Home.jpg

Mobile_Home.jpg

139 ms

FCI-VehicleProtection-Hero.jpg

FCI-VehicleProtection-Hero.jpg

90 ms

fcfg-logo.png

fcfg-logo.png

89 ms

Certification-Badge_October-2023.png

Certification-Badge_October-2023.png

139 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

28 ms

anchor

anchor

31 ms

styles__ltr.css

styles__ltr.css

4 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

10 ms

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iHowXYT9hUZIlyFRr5Um8JUZEzs-k28JIAaYyWMV82g.js

21 ms

webworker.js

webworker.js

57 ms

Accessibility Review

firstcanadian.ca accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

firstcanadian.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

firstcanadian.ca SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Firstcanadian.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 Firstcanadian.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

firstcanadian.ca

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