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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

banff.ca

Banff, AB - Official Website | Official Website

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

687 ms

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About Website

Welcome to banff.ca homepage info - get ready to check Banff best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about banff.ca

The official website of the Town of Banff. We are a municipality located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Banff.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

banff.ca performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.503

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

banff.ca

148 ms

banff.ca

560 ms

gtm.js

38 ms

gtm.js

66 ms

antiforgery

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Banff.ca, 14% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 13% (11 requests) were made to Snapwidget.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (560 ms) belongs to the original domain Banff.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.3 kB (29%)

Content Size

567.3 kB

After Optimization

399.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Banff.ca main page is 567.3 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. 75% 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 286.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 119.3 kB

  • Original 147.3 kB
  • After minification 139.0 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 119.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 286.6 kB
  • After minification 253.4 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. Obviously, Banff needs image optimization as it can save up to 33.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 107.7 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 13.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Banff.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (74%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Banff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

banff.ca

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148 ms

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560 ms

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38 ms

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66 ms

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122 ms

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253 ms

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Accessibility Review

banff.ca accessibility score

67

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

banff.ca best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

banff.ca SEO score

85

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

robots.txt is not valid

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 Banff.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 Banff.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

banff.ca

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