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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

cruising.bc.ca

BC Boating | Coastal Navigation | Maritime Radio Operator Course|Boating in BC

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

517 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cruising content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cruising.bc.ca

Boating courses and instruction offered in sail boat, power boat and coastal navigation. Sidney, on Vancouver Island, is the place to start boating in BC for the Gulf Islands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cruising.bc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cruising.bc.ca performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cruising.bc.ca

58 ms

www.cruising.bc.ca

318 ms

xsp_styles.css

119 ms

style-test.css

263 ms

mdetect.js

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Cruising.bc.ca, 14% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cruising.bc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

755.1 kB

After Optimization

618.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cruising.bc.ca main page is 755.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 542.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 34.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 542.6 kB
  • After minification 537.5 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. Cruising images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 146.1 kB
  • After minification 126.7 kB
  • After compression 69.1 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 77.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 22.6 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Cruising.bc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (54%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cruising. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cruising.bc.ca

cruising.bc.ca

58 ms

www.cruising.bc.ca

www.cruising.bc.ca

318 ms

xsp_styles.css

xsp_styles.css

119 ms

style-test.css

style-test.css

263 ms

mdetect.js

mdetect.js

251 ms

INFO_BAR_MENU.css

INFO_BAR_MENU.css

183 ms

FOOTER_MENU.css

FOOTER_MENU.css

226 ms

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96 ms

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181 ms

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8 ms

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5 ms

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158 ms

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162 ms

wxbutton.js

wxbutton.js

82 ms

quant.js

quant.js

7 ms

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141 ms

aff_i

aff_i

109 ms

back1.gif

back1.gif

1093 ms

back2.jpg

back2.jpg

1187 ms

bottom.jpg

bottom.jpg

1074 ms

logo.jpg

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1035 ms

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1037 ms

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1043 ms

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twit.jpg

1068 ms

forum.jpg

forum.jpg

1072 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

1080 ms

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2106 ms

sail.gif

sail.gif

2101 ms

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faqs25.jpg

2102 ms

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Hagens.jpg

2109 ms

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t.php

144 ms

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5 ms

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1109 ms

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1220 ms

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mainback1.jpg

2247 ms

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disco_left0.gif

1238 ms

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2273 ms

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2120 ms

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disco_right0.gif

2097 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

126 ms

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bannerrocm.png

3110 ms

footer2.jpg

footer2.jpg

3107 ms

ga.js

ga.js

4 ms

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12 ms

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26 ms

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7 ms

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24 ms

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fastbutton

87 ms

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postmessageRelay

46 ms

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57 ms

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62 ms

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36 ms

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43 ms

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49 ms

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5 ms

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20 ms

Accessibility Review

cruising.bc.ca accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cruising.bc.ca best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cruising.bc.ca SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cruising.bc.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 Cruising.bc.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

cruising.bc.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cruising. 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: