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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gov.bc.ca

Home - Province of British Columbia

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

327 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

700 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gov.bc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 327 ms and then it took 4.6 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

gov.bc.ca performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

327 ms

www2.gov.bc.ca

76 ms

home

262 ms

e1912738933b9fa1.css

165 ms

polyfills-5cd94c89d3acac5f.js

288 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Gov.bc.ca, 4% (3 requests) were made to Live.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Www2.gov.bc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Gov.bc.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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 147.5 kB

  • Original 174.9 kB
  • After minification 174.8 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 147.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. Gov images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

46

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

327 ms

www2.gov.bc.ca

www2.gov.bc.ca

76 ms

home

home

262 ms

e1912738933b9fa1.css

e1912738933b9fa1.css

165 ms

polyfills-5cd94c89d3acac5f.js

polyfills-5cd94c89d3acac5f.js

288 ms

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223 ms

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300 ms

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316 ms

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236 ms

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392 ms

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409 ms

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382 ms

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398 ms

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509 ms

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513 ms

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544 ms

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610 ms

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613 ms

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18 ms

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441 ms

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542 ms

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544 ms

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546 ms

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554 ms

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548 ms

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549 ms

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638 ms

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639 ms

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641 ms

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642 ms

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649 ms

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701 ms

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657 ms

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27 ms

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611 ms

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605 ms

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628 ms

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633 ms

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629 ms

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646 ms

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585 ms

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584 ms

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582 ms

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580 ms

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633 ms

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673 ms

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666 ms

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797 ms

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882 ms

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948 ms

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595 ms

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576 ms

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271 ms

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1250 ms

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911 ms

Accessibility Review

gov.bc.ca accessibility score

82

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

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

gov.bc.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gov.bc.ca SEO score

92

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

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 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 Gov.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

gov.bc.ca

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