Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% 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

stat.gouv.qc.ca

La statistique au service de la société | Institut de la statistique du Québec

Page Load Speed

447 ms in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

311 ms

Page Rendered

69 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stat.gouv.qc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 380 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

stat.gouv.qc.ca performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stat.gouv.qc.ca

67 ms

stat.gouv.qc.ca

86 ms

statistique.quebec.ca

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Stat.gouv.qc.ca, 33% (1 request) were made to Statistique.quebec.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (147 ms) relates to the external source Statistique.quebec.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 372.4 kB (45%)

Content Size

819.8 kB

After Optimization

447.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Stat.gouv.qc.ca main page is 819.8 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. Images take 359.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 107 B
  • After minification 107 B
  • After compression 92 B

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 15 B or 14% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 359.3 kB
  • After minification 346.7 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. Stat Gouv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 214.7 kB

  • Original 283.8 kB
  • After minification 268.4 kB
  • After compression 69.2 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 214.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 145.2 kB

  • Original 176.6 kB
  • After minification 171.4 kB
  • After compression 31.4 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. Stat.gouv.qc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 145.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

stat.gouv.qc.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

stat.gouv.qc.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

stat.gouv.qc.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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stat.gouv.qc.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French 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 Stat.gouv.qc.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Stat Gouv. 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: