Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

servicenl.gov.nl.ca

Welcome to Digital Government and Service NL - Digital Government and Service NL

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Servicenl.gov.nl.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 289 ms and then it took 1.3 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

servicenl.gov.nl.ca performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

servicenl.gov.nl.ca

289 ms

gnl-home.css

337 ms

gnl-block-notice.css

160 ms

homepic.jpg

582 ms

jquery-1.9.0.min.js

526 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Servicenl.gov.nl.ca, 18% (8 requests) were made to Google.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (638 ms) belongs to the original domain Servicenl.gov.nl.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

662.6 kB

After Optimization

526.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Servicenl.gov.nl.ca main page is 662.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 440.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 3.0 kB, which is 12% 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 18.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 29.3 kB

  • Original 440.7 kB
  • After minification 411.4 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. Service NL Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 63.2 kB

  • Original 166.6 kB
  • After minification 166.1 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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 63.2 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Servicenl.gov.nl.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (38%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Service NL Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

servicenl.gov.nl.ca accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

servicenl.gov.nl.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

servicenl.gov.nl.ca SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Servicenl.gov.nl.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Servicenl.gov.nl.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Service NL Gov. 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: