Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

bcwildfire.ca

Wildfire Service - Province of British Columbia

Page Load Speed

12.9 sec in total

First Response

232 ms

Resources Loaded

12.1 sec

Page Rendered

629 ms

bcwildfire.ca screenshot

About Website

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

The BC Wildfire Service employs approximately 1,600 seasonal personnel each year, including firefighters, dispatchers and other seasonal positions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcwildfire.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 232 ms and then it took 12.7 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

bcwildfire.ca performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bcwildfire.ca

232 ms

wildfire-status

979 ms

e1912738933b9fa1.css

148 ms

polyfills-5cd94c89d3acac5f.js

238 ms

webpack-99122c1b77f52d70.js

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bcwildfire.ca, 99% (69 requests) were made to Www2.gov.bc.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9 sec) relates to the external source Www2.gov.bc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 147.3 kB (77%)

Content Size

192.4 kB

After Optimization

45.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Bcwildfire.ca main page is 192.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 176.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 147.3 kB

  • Original 176.1 kB
  • After minification 176.1 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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 147.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 16.3 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. Bc Wildfire images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (29%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bc Wildfire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bcwildfire.ca accessibility score

91

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

bcwildfire.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

bcwildfire.ca SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bcwildfire.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 Bcwildfire.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 description is not detected on the main page of Bc Wildfire. 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: