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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

forces.ca

Home | Canadian Armed Forces

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

490 ms

forces.ca screenshot

About Website

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

Jobs in the Canadian Armed Forces, and information about the application process, paid education, benefits, and life in the military.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forces.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forces.ca performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.437

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forces.ca

132 ms

www.forces.ca

145 ms

forces.ca

118 ms

235 ms

js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Forces.ca, 7% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (573 ms) belongs to the original domain Forces.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 473.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forces.ca main page is 2.8 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. 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 424.5 kB

  • Original 530.2 kB
  • After minification 472.2 kB
  • After compression 105.7 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 58.0 kB, which is 11% 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 424.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Forces images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 110 B

  • Original 658.9 kB
  • After minification 658.9 kB
  • After compression 658.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 107 B

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 73.2 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. Forces.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (34%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forces. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forces.ca

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132 ms

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145 ms

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118 ms

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Accessibility Review

forces.ca accessibility score

96

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

forces.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

forces.ca SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Forces.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 Forces.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

forces.ca

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