Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

handydart.ca

BC Transit - handyDART | Schedules and Maps | BC Transit

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

handydart.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit handydart.ca now to see the best up-to-date HandyDART content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about handydart.ca

Victoria – handyDART is a transit service that helps those with disabilities reach their destinations.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Handydart.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

handydart.ca performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

handydart.ca

66 ms

handydart

414 ms

style.css

23 ms

font-awesome.css

19 ms

css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Handydart.ca, 71% (30 requests) were made to Bctransit.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (414 ms) relates to the external source Bctransit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 41.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

336.2 kB

After Optimization

294.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Handydart.ca main page is 336.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 147.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 8.5 kB, which is 22% 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 30.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 97.0 kB
  • After minification 95.6 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. HandyDART images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 989 B

  • Original 147.8 kB
  • After minification 147.8 kB
  • After compression 146.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 52.5 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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. Handydart.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (58%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HandyDART. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

handydart.ca accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

handydart.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

SEO Factors

handydart.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Handydart.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 Handydart.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 HandyDART. 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: