Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

bci.ca

BCI - BC Pension Fund & Public Sector Investing

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

986 ms

bci.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bci.ca homepage info - get ready to check BCI best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about bci.ca

With $233.0 billion in assets under management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests for BC public sectors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bci.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bci.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.574

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bci.ca

49 ms

www.bci.ca

161 ms

10cf9d8c659b4f1c94cc855ad49217c6.css

29 ms

b5313b1b1d4e2cef6495f6f0cf96b77d.css

53 ms

185e100d0bde59f8e8f9aabc1633d03a.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Bci.ca, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (800 ms) belongs to the original domain Bci.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 455.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

13.4 MB

After Optimization

12.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Bci.ca main page is 13.4 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. 85% 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. Images take 13.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 93.4 kB

  • Original 109.6 kB
  • After minification 103.1 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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. 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 93.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 361.9 kB

  • Original 13.1 MB
  • After minification 12.7 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. BCI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 493 B

  • Original 104.4 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 103.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 155 B

  • Original 91.9 kB
  • After minification 91.9 kB
  • After compression 91.7 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. Bci.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (42%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BCI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bci.ca accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

bci.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bci.ca SEO score

97

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 Bci.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 Bci.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 BCI. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: