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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

goingtocanada.gc.ca

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

Page Load Speed

994 ms in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

722 ms

Page Rendered

148 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goingtocanada.gc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 870 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goingtocanada.gc.ca performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.281

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

goingtocanada.gc.ca

124 ms

theme.min.css

170 ms

messages.min.css

86 ms

satelliteLib-78cf42deb149c9766cbaaa6151e252b9b67c0200.js

84 ms

jquery.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Goingtocanada.gc.ca, 15% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (201 ms) belongs to the original domain Goingtocanada.gc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.5 kB (54%)

Content Size

438.2 kB

After Optimization

199.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Goingtocanada.gc.ca main page is 438.2 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. Javascripts take 293.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 3.7 kB or 66% 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. Goingto Canada Gc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 207.8 kB

  • Original 293.1 kB
  • After minification 292.3 kB
  • After compression 85.3 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 207.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 102.9 kB
  • After compression 75.9 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. Goingtocanada.gc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (62%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Goingto Canada 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

goingtocanada.gc.ca

goingtocanada.gc.ca

124 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

170 ms

messages.min.css

messages.min.css

86 ms

satelliteLib-78cf42deb149c9766cbaaa6151e252b9b67c0200.js

satelliteLib-78cf42deb149c9766cbaaa6151e252b9b67c0200.js

84 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

35 ms

wet-boew.min.js

wet-boew.min.js

201 ms

theme.min.js

theme.min.js

130 ms

css

css

53 ms

css

css

66 ms

id

id

122 ms

sp-bg-2.jpg

sp-bg-2.jpg

152 ms

sig-spl.svg

sig-spl.svg

109 ms

wmms-spl.svg

wmms-spl.svg

101 ms

s-code-contents-69cce4f42ae039e7c3974e2fa4292c5e7ad592ab.js

s-code-contents-69cce4f42ae039e7c3974e2fa4292c5e7ad592ab.js

22 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

49 ms

datepicker.min.css

datepicker.min.css

48 ms

en.min.js

en.min.js

48 ms

template.min.js

template.min.js

72 ms

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61 ms

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79 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA3q5d0.ttf

84 ms

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S6uyw4BMUTPHjxAwWyWtFCc.ttf

95 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

78 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

75 ms

id

id

80 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

65 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Y0dnrAAAALKJ8AMv

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Y0dnrAAAALKJ8AMv

30 ms

Accessibility Review

goingtocanada.gc.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

goingtocanada.gc.ca best practices score

67

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

goingtocanada.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 Goingtocanada.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 Goingtocanada.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

goingtocanada.gc.ca

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