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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

afsc.ca

Agriculture Financial Services Corporation - Growing a Strong & Diversified Alberta

Page Load Speed

21.8 sec in total

First Response

10.1 sec

Resources Loaded

11.6 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

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

AFSC provides Alberta farmers with crop insurance, livestock price insurance, farm loans, commercial loans & farm income disaster assistance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afsc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 10.1 sec and then it took 11.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

afsc.ca performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

afsc.ca

10080 ms

cssDivs.css

188 ms

cssStyles.css

187 ms

cssMenu.css

127 ms

cssSubMenu.css

440 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Afsc.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Afsc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.1 kB (34%)

Content Size

83.6 kB

After Optimization

55.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Afsc.ca main page is 83.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 39.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 7.0 kB, which is 21% 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 19.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 39.3 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. Afsc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 877 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 660 B

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 877 B or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Afsc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (36%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Afsc. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

afsc.ca

afsc.ca

10080 ms

cssDivs.css

cssDivs.css

188 ms

cssStyles.css

cssStyles.css

187 ms

cssMenu.css

cssMenu.css

127 ms

cssSubMenu.css

cssSubMenu.css

440 ms

menu.js

menu.js

189 ms

rolo.js

rolo.js

249 ms

BG.jpg

BG.jpg

65 ms

BGheaderTop.jpg

BGheaderTop.jpg

66 ms

banner_risk11.jpg

banner_risk11.jpg

201 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

1482 ms

BGbutton.gif

BGbutton.gif

369 ms

BGcontent.jpg

BGcontent.jpg

65 ms

BGnewsTop.jpg

BGnewsTop.jpg

105 ms

hr.gif

hr.gif

128 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

631 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

975 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

194 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

261 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

270 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

295 ms

BGfooter.gif

BGfooter.gif

295 ms

AFSCExternalSignature.bmp

AFSCExternalSignature.bmp

419 ms

canada.gif

canada.gif

351 ms

albertaLogo.gif

albertaLogo.gif

478 ms

print.css

print.css

65 ms

Accessibility Review

afsc.ca accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

afsc.ca best practices score

69

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

afsc.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Afsc.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 Afsc.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

afsc.ca

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