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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

former.vancouver.ca

Home | City of Vancouver

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

313 ms

former.vancouver.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit former.vancouver.ca now to see the best up-to-date Former Vancouver content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about former.vancouver.ca

Official site of the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Access City services, sign up for recreation programs, and learn about City projects.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Former.vancouver.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

former.vancouver.ca performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

former.vancouver.ca

205 ms

vancouver.ca

1103 ms

simplePagination.css

136 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

379 ms

jquery.simplePagination.js

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Former.vancouver.ca, 71% (68 requests) were made to Vancouver.ca and 6% (6 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Vancouver.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 925.1 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Former.vancouver.ca main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.4 kB

  • Original 135.0 kB
  • After minification 125.6 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 110.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 190.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Former Vancouver needs image optimization as it can save up to 190.8 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 420.8 kB

  • Original 572.4 kB
  • After minification 474.2 kB
  • After compression 151.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 420.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 203.1 kB

  • Original 235.8 kB
  • After minification 177.1 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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. Former.vancouver.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 203.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (39%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Former Vancouver. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

former.vancouver.ca

former.vancouver.ca

205 ms

vancouver.ca

vancouver.ca

1103 ms

simplePagination.css

simplePagination.css

136 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

379 ms

jquery.simplePagination.js

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202 ms

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339 ms

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129 ms

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333 ms

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192 ms

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265 ms

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260 ms

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267 ms

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4 ms

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273 ms

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395 ms

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213 ms

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354 ms

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356 ms

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72 ms

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98 ms

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102 ms

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99 ms

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99 ms

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156 ms

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158 ms

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158 ms

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237 ms

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237 ms

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555 ms

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296 ms

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358 ms

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359 ms

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475 ms

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493 ms

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502 ms

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502 ms

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557 ms

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559 ms

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562 ms

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562 ms

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613 ms

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619 ms

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631 ms

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32 ms

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33 ms

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26 ms

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551 ms

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552 ms

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551 ms

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619 ms

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618 ms

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616 ms

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564 ms

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597 ms

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10 ms

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615 ms

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354 ms

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Accessibility Review

former.vancouver.ca accessibility score

71

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

former.vancouver.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

former.vancouver.ca SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Former.vancouver.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 Former.vancouver.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

former.vancouver.ca

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