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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

international.gc.ca

Global Affairs Canada – Splash page / Affaires mondiales Canada – Page de garde

Page Load Speed

935 ms in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

655 ms

Page Rendered

108 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed International.gc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 763 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

international.gc.ca performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

international.gc.ca

172 ms

jquery.min.js

229 ms

util-min.css

261 ms

pe-ap-min.css

274 ms

theme-sp-pe-min.css

215 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to International.gc.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (366 ms) belongs to the original domain International.gc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 599.6 kB (67%)

Content Size

901.5 kB

After Optimization

301.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of International.gc.ca main page is 901.5 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 481.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 10.3 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 3.4 kB, which is 33% 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 8.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 466 B

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 6.2 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. International Gc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 279.2 kB

  • Original 402.6 kB
  • After minification 402.3 kB
  • After compression 123.4 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 279.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 311.3 kB

  • Original 481.9 kB
  • After minification 477.7 kB
  • After compression 170.6 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. International.gc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of International 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

international.gc.ca

international.gc.ca

172 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

229 ms

util-min.css

util-min.css

261 ms

pe-ap-min.css

pe-ap-min.css

274 ms

theme-sp-pe-min.css

theme-sp-pe-min.css

215 ms

custom.css

custom.css

153 ms

settings.js

settings.js

91 ms

theme-min.js

theme-min.js

246 ms

pe-ap-min.js

pe-ap-min.js

340 ms

jquery.mobile.min.js

jquery.mobile.min.js

366 ms

sig-eng.png

sig-eng.png

131 ms

wmms.png

wmms.png

131 ms

sig-blk-eng.svg

sig-blk-eng.svg

111 ms

wmms-blk.svg

wmms-blk.svg

119 ms

en-min.js

en-min.js

73 ms

Accessibility Review

international.gc.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

international.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

SEO Factors

international.gc.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 International.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 International.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

international.gc.ca

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