Ic.gc.ca Site Title

Language selection - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Main Site / Sélection de la langue - Site principal d'Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada

Ic.gc.ca Meta Description

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) works with Canadians in all areas of the economy and in all parts of the country to improve conditions for investment, enhance Canada's innovation performance, increase Canada's share of global trade and build a fair, efficient and competitive marketplace.

Ic.gc.ca Test Results

ic.gc.ca Mobile Usability: 100/100


ic.gc.ca Mobile Speed: 58/100

Quick overview:
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 2 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/utils/scripts/_WET_4-0/themes-dist/theme-gcwu-fegc/css/wet-boew.min.css
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Enable compression
Compressing resources with gzip or deflate can reduce the number of bytes sent over the network.
Enable compression for the following resources to reduce their transfer size by 274.3KiB (74% reduction).
Compressing http://www.ic.gc.ca/utils/scripts/_WET_4-0/themes-dist/theme-gcwu-fegc/css/theme-sp-pe.min.css could save 154.6KiB (82% reduction).
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Avoid landing page redirects
Your page has 2 redirects. Redirects introduce additional delays before the page can be loaded.
Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs.
http://ic.gc.ca/
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Leverage browser caching
Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network.
Leverage browser caching for the following cacheable resources:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/utils/scripts/_WET_4-0/themes-dist/theme-gcwu-fegc/assets/sig-alt-en.svg (expiration not specified)
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Minify JavaScript
Compacting JavaScript code can save many bytes of data and speed up downloading, parsing, and execution time.
Minify JavaScript for the following resources to reduce their size by 4.3KiB (16% reduction).
Minifying http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/home.nsf/js/webtrends.js could save 4.3KiB (16% reduction).
Minify HTML
Compacting HTML code, including any inline JavaScript and CSS contained in it, can save many bytes of data and speed up download and parse times.
Minify HTML for the following resources to reduce their size by 1.2KiB (23% reduction).
Minifying http://www.ic.gc.ca/Intro.html could save 1.2KiB (23% reduction).

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