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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

insuranceinstitute.ca

Insurance Institute of Canada

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

536 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

520 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Insurance Institute content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about insuranceinstitute.ca

The Insurance Institute is the premier source of professional education and career development for the country’s property and casualty insurance industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Insuranceinstitute.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 536 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

insuranceinstitute.ca performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,840 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.253

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.insuranceinstitute.ca

536 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

76 ms

txa4dad.css

85 ms

main.css

409 ms

site.entry.js

746 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Insuranceinstitute.ca, 11% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) belongs to the original domain Insuranceinstitute.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (40%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Insuranceinstitute.ca main page is 8.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 235.8 kB

  • Original 263.3 kB
  • After minification 219.0 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 44.3 kB, which is 17% 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 235.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 642.2 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.0 MB

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. Obviously, Insurance Institute needs image optimization as it can save up to 642.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 705.1 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 1.5 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 934.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 982.2 kB
  • After compression 170.3 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. Insuranceinstitute.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 934.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (48%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Insurance Institute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.insuranceinstitute.ca

www.insuranceinstitute.ca

536 ms

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76 ms

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85 ms

main.css

main.css

409 ms

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746 ms

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264 ms

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331 ms

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34 ms

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23 ms

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161 ms

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154 ms

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location.svg

133 ms

chevron-right-footer.svg

chevron-right-footer.svg

134 ms

IIC_logo_h.svg

IIC_logo_h.svg

133 ms

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229 ms

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226 ms

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227 ms

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260 ms

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262 ms

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257 ms

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256 ms

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260 ms

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663 ms

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662 ms

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663 ms

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663 ms

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664 ms

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666 ms

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669 ms

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544 ms

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580 ms

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474 ms

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499 ms

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496 ms

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493 ms

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503 ms

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84 ms

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504 ms

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500 ms

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637 ms

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18 ms

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7 ms

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27 ms

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54 ms

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193 ms

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178 ms

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32 ms

Create

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181 ms

Accessibility Review

insuranceinstitute.ca accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

insuranceinstitute.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

insuranceinstitute.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 Insuranceinstitute.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 Insuranceinstitute.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

insuranceinstitute.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Insurance Institute. 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: