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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

merit.gg.ca

The Meritorious Service Decorations (Civil Division) | The Governor General of Canada

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merit.gg.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merit.gg.ca performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,990 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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62 ms

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72 ms

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Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Merit.gg.ca, 60% (37 requests) were made to Gg.ca and 10% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Platform.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 466.8 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

555.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merit.gg.ca main page is 1.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 439.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. 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 56.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 254.8 kB
  • After minification 239.6 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. Merit Gg images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 255.4 kB
  • After minification 255.4 kB
  • After compression 172.3 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 83.1 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 312.1 kB

  • Original 439.2 kB
  • After minification 438.9 kB
  • After compression 127.0 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. Merit.gg.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 312.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (63%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merit Gg. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

merit.gg.ca accessibility score

97

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

merit.gg.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

merit.gg.ca SEO score

98

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Merit.gg.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 Merit.gg.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

merit.gg.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Merit Gg. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: