Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hellobc.co.uk

Super, Natural BC | British Columbia Travel Information

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

833 ms

Page Rendered

406 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hellobc.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Hello BC best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about hellobc.co.uk

British Columbia, Canada, is set between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Popular travel destinations include Vancouver, Victoria, and Whistler.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hellobc.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 1.2 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

hellobc.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,420 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hellobc.com

71 ms

otSDKStub.js

42 ms

common.css

52 ms

owl-carousel.css

42 ms

travel-deals.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Hellobc.co.uk, 5% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) relates to the external source Hellobc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Hellobc.co.uk main page is 2.9 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 143.9 kB

  • Original 174.4 kB
  • After minification 174.3 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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 143.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Hello BC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 274.7 kB
  • After minification 274.7 kB
  • After compression 273.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 248 B

  • Original 311.4 kB
  • After minification 311.4 kB
  • After compression 311.1 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. Hellobc.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (54%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hello BC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hellobc.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

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

Best Practices

hellobc.co.uk 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

hellobc.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

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 Hellobc.co.uk 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 Hellobc.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Hello BC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: