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forces.gc.ca

The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces / Le Ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces armées canadiennes

Page Load Speed

522 ms in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

334 ms

Page Rendered

105 ms

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www.forces.gc.ca est le site Web officiel du ministère de la Défense nationale et des Forces canadiennes. Il s'agit de la meilleure source d'information courante et historique pour les questions milit...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forces.gc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 83 ms and then it took 439 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forces.gc.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

forces.gc.ca

83 ms

wet-boew.min.css

118 ms

theme-sp-pe.min.css

55 ms

jquery.js

82 ms

wet-boew.min.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Forces.gc.ca, 7% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (160 ms) belongs to the original domain Forces.gc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 246.8 kB (71%)

Content Size

347.3 kB

After Optimization

100.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forces.gc.ca main page is 347.3 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 184.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 3.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 16.2 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. Forces Gc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 90.2 kB

  • Original 141.1 kB
  • After minification 141.1 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 90.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 152.9 kB

  • Original 184.7 kB
  • After minification 184.6 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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.gc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 152.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (38%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forces 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forces.gc.ca

forces.gc.ca

83 ms

wet-boew.min.css

wet-boew.min.css

118 ms

theme-sp-pe.min.css

theme-sp-pe.min.css

55 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

82 ms

wet-boew.min.js

wet-boew.min.js

160 ms

theme.min.js

theme.min.js

55 ms

sig-alt-en.svg

sig-alt-en.svg

54 ms

wmms-alt.svg

wmms-alt.svg

60 ms

sp-pe-bg.jpg

sp-pe-bg.jpg

40 ms

sp-pe-leaf.jpg

sp-pe-leaf.jpg

58 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

28 ms

datepicker.min.css

datepicker.min.css

25 ms

en.min.js

en.min.js

37 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

28 ms

SEO Factors

forces.gc.ca SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forces.gc.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Forces.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

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