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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

merit.gg.ca

The Meritorious Service Decorations (Civil Division) | The Governor General of Canada

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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About Website

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The Meritorious Service Decorations (Civil Division) were established to recognize remarkable contributions in many different fields of endeavour, from advocacy initiatives and health care services, t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merit.gg.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merit.gg.ca performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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66 ms

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74 ms

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759 ms

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38 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Merit.gg.ca, 83% (38 requests) were made to Gg.ca and 4% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (759 ms) relates to the external source Gg.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

723.7 kB

After Optimization

606.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merit.gg.ca main page is 723.7 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. 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 401.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.8 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 56.7 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 46.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 401.1 kB
  • After minification 386.0 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. Merit Gg images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 192.7 kB
  • After minification 192.7 kB
  • After compression 138.1 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 54.6 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 689 B

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 70.0 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. Merit.gg.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (61%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merit Gg. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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66 ms

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74 ms

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759 ms

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Accessibility Review

merit.gg.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

merit.gg.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

merit.gg.ca SEO score

99

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

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 Merit.gg.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 Merit.gg.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 data is detected on the main page of Merit Gg. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: