Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

pipsc.ca

The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

579 ms

pipsc.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit pipsc.ca now to see the best up-to-date PIPSC content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pipsc.ca

With over 57,000 members, The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) is the largest union in Canada representing scientists and professionals employed at the federal and some p...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pipsc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 1.9 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

pipsc.ca performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,250 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pipsc.ca

167 ms

pipsc.ca

289 ms

analytics.js

32 ms

launch-936e0dc413ee.min.js

181 ms

css_OZCuO6d4wx0oQOzCuyCHme23kHKF8PtkFl7jWdIV3ck.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Pipsc.ca, 4% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (576 ms) belongs to the original domain Pipsc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 205.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Pipsc.ca main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 82.2 kB
  • After minification 56.8 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 25.4 kB, which is 31% 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 71.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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, PIPSC needs image optimization as it can save up to 128.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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. Pipsc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (17%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PIPSC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pipsc.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

pipsc.ca best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

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