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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 54

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ci.gc.ca

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

365 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

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Le site Web de Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada (IRCC) constitue votre meilleure source d'information sur l'immigration au Canada, sur l'établissement au Canada et sur la citoyenneté canadi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ci.gc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 365 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ci.gc.ca performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.281

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ci.gc.ca

365 ms

www.cic.gc.ca

176 ms

wet-boew.min.css

48 ms

theme.min.css

274 ms

messages.min.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ci.gc.ca, 74% (17 requests) were made to Cic.gc.ca and 13% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (365 ms) belongs to the original domain Ci.gc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 392.7 kB (68%)

Content Size

577.3 kB

After Optimization

184.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ci.gc.ca main page is 577.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 308.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 9.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 36.7 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. Ci Gc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 139.2 kB

  • Original 217.4 kB
  • After minification 213.3 kB
  • After compression 78.1 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 139.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 243.6 kB

  • Original 308.9 kB
  • After minification 308.8 kB
  • After compression 65.3 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. Ci.gc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 243.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (65%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ci Gc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ci.gc.ca

ci.gc.ca

365 ms

www.cic.gc.ca

www.cic.gc.ca

176 ms

wet-boew.min.css

wet-boew.min.css

48 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

274 ms

messages.min.css

messages.min.css

94 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

147 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

36 ms

wet-boew.min.js

wet-boew.min.js

229 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

59 ms

sp-bg-2.jpg

sp-bg-2.jpg

143 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

58 ms

sig-spl.svg

sig-spl.svg

91 ms

wmms-spl.svg

wmms-spl.svg

105 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

51 ms

datepicker.min.css

datepicker.min.css

51 ms

en.min.js

en.min.js

81 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

182 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

9 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

48 ms

datepicker.min.css

datepicker.min.css

46 ms

en.min.js

en.min.js

50 ms

Accessibility Review

ci.gc.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ci.gc.ca best practices score

54

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ci.gc.ca SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Ci.gc.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 Ci.gc.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

ci.gc.ca

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