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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

vilocal.ca

VILocal - The largest online directory on Vancouver Island

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

vilocal.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to vilocal.ca homepage info - get ready to check VILocal best content right away, or after learning these important things about vilocal.ca

Thousands users rely on VILocal to search, compare and connect with over 15,000 local businesses across the Vancouver Island.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vilocal.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vilocal.ca performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vilocal.ca

34 ms

vilocal.ca

30 ms

www.vilocal.ca

157 ms

js

136 ms

js

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Vilocal.ca, 40% (21 requests) were made to D16zhg550j540c.cloudfront.net and 19% (10 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source D16zhg550j540c.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vilocal.ca main page is 4.1 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 56.0 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 13.6 kB, which is 20% 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 56.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. VILocal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 68.6 kB
  • After minification 68.6 kB
  • After compression 68.6 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 0 B

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Vilocal.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (9%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VILocal. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

vilocal.ca

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34 ms

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30 ms

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157 ms

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136 ms

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190 ms

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255 ms

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82 ms

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80 ms

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Accessibility Review

vilocal.ca accessibility score

88

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

vilocal.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

vilocal.ca SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

vilocal.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of VILocal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: