Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

crosscountryconnection.ca

Cross Country Connection - Whistler premium quality bike rentalsCross Country Connection | Whistler XC ski lessons and rentals in Whistler BC.

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

360 ms

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About Website

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The Cross Country Connection rents high quality model trail and xc bikes from Norco and Specialized, conducts Skill Sessions and tours.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crosscountryconnection.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crosscountryconnection.ca performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,960 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crosscountryconnection.ca

71 ms

www.crosscountryconnection.ca

640 ms

style.css

55 ms

formidableforms.css

85 ms

awesome-weather.css

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Crosscountryconnection.ca, 14% (7 requests) were made to Weather.gc.ca and 12% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (745 ms) relates to the external source Weather.gc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 711.2 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

494.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Crosscountryconnection.ca main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 636.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 20.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 338.8 kB
  • After minification 319.5 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. Cross Country Connection images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 124.3 kB

  • Original 202.2 kB
  • After minification 194.9 kB
  • After compression 77.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 124.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 546.8 kB

  • Original 636.7 kB
  • After minification 614.8 kB
  • After compression 90.0 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. Crosscountryconnection.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 546.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (58%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cross Country Connection. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

crosscountryconnection.ca accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

crosscountryconnection.ca best practices score

75

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

crosscountryconnection.ca SEO score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Crosscountryconnection.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 Crosscountryconnection.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 Cross Country Connection. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: