Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ctvvancouverisland.ca

Local Contests and Promotions | CTV Vancouver Island

Page Load Speed

98.6 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

72.8 sec

Page Rendered

25.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctvvancouverisland.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 98.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ctvvancouverisland.ca performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,290 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.245

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ctvvancouverisland.ca

188 ms

vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca

1225 ms

common.css

545 ms

jquery-1.7.js

490 ms

jquery.cookie.js

542 ms

Our browser made a total of 252 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ctvvancouverisland.ca, 24% (60 requests) were made to Static.ctvnews.ca and 24% (60 requests) were made to Ctvnews.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13 sec) relates to the external source Ctvnews.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (54%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ctvvancouverisland.ca main page is 3.9 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. Javascripts take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 201.1 kB

  • Original 231.0 kB
  • After minification 148.9 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 82.1 kB, which is 36% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 201.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 111.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 967.9 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. CTV Vancouver Island images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 714.4 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 1.5 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 263.0 kB

  • Original 336.9 kB
  • After minification 311.3 kB
  • After compression 74.0 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. Ctvvancouverisland.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 263.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 136 (57%)

Requests Now

238

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 238 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CTV Vancouver Island. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 80 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ctvvancouverisland.ca accessibility score

63

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ctvvancouverisland.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ctvvancouverisland.ca SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Ctvvancouverisland.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 Ctvvancouverisland.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 CTV Vancouver Island. 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: