Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

dir.gov.bc.ca

BC Government Directory Home Page

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

525 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

97 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dir.gov.bc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 525 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dir.gov.bc.ca performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dir.gov.bc.ca

525 ms

style.css

254 ms

windows.js

181 ms

browser.js

180 ms

email_scramble.js

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Dir.gov.bc.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (525 ms) belongs to the original domain Dir.gov.bc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.6 kB (82%)

Content Size

106.3 kB

After Optimization

18.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Dir.gov.bc.ca main page is 106.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 75.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 5.0 kB, which is 23% 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 19.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 75.0 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 60.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Dir.gov.bc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (74%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dir Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dir.gov.bc.ca accessibility score

52

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dir.gov.bc.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dir.gov.bc.ca SEO score

62

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dir.gov.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 Dir.gov.bc.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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