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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

bbd.ca

Benefits by Design (BBD): Group Insurance Plans for Canadians

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

455 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing BBD content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bbd.ca

Benefits by Design (BBD) Inc. provides affordable, customizable employee benefits and group insurance plans for Canadian organizations.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bbd.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 2.7 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

bbd.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,390 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bbd.ca

15 ms

www.bbd.ca

101 ms

gtm.js

62 ms

style-foundation.css

44 ms

slick.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Bbd.ca, 12% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (397 ms) relates to the external source Js.hs-banner.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 215.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

884.7 kB

After Optimization

669.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bbd.ca main page is 884.7 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. 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. Javascripts take 604.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 97.3 kB
  • After minification 90.9 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 75.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 57.8 kB
  • After minification 49.0 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, BBD needs image optimization as it can save up to 8.7 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 123.3 kB

  • Original 604.2 kB
  • After minification 604.0 kB
  • After compression 480.9 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 123.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 125.5 kB
  • After minification 125.5 kB
  • After compression 118.1 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. Bbd.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (82%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BBD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bbd.ca

bbd.ca

15 ms

www.bbd.ca

www.bbd.ca

101 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

62 ms

style-foundation.css

style-foundation.css

44 ms

slick.css

slick.css

52 ms

style.css

style.css

79 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

76 ms

styles.css

styles.css

53 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

100 ms

js

js

93 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

49 ms

what-input.js

what-input.js

63 ms

foundation.js

foundation.js

120 ms

modernizr-3.1.1.min.js

modernizr-3.1.1.min.js

74 ms

TweenMax.js

TweenMax.js

124 ms

TimelineMax.js

TimelineMax.js

76 ms

ScrollMagic.js

ScrollMagic.js

83 ms

animation.gsap.js

animation.gsap.js

81 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

118 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

119 ms

fonts.js

fonts.js

120 ms

app.js

app.js

119 ms

7505529.js

7505529.js

280 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

120 ms

css2

css2

44 ms

bbd-arrow.svg

bbd-arrow.svg

135 ms

24IgA-swTCw

24IgA-swTCw

196 ms

7505529.js

7505529.js

210 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

107 ms

EN-BBD-Full-Colour-2-e1651073381681.png

EN-BBD-Full-Colour-2-e1651073381681.png

68 ms

leadflows.js

leadflows.js

105 ms

banner.js

banner.js

397 ms

collectedforms.js

collectedforms.js

129 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

28 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

47 ms

base.js

base.js

95 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

160 ms

mK0xWDPcwcXQhJC0zos_TWAHQXo6uV6sCgJ_cLtDow8.js

mK0xWDPcwcXQhJC0zos_TWAHQXo6uV6sCgJ_cLtDow8.js

108 ms

embed.js

embed.js

39 ms

id

id

22 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

125 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

125 ms

Create

Create

96 ms

Accessibility Review

bbd.ca accessibility score

80

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

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

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.

Best Practices

bbd.ca best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bbd.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 Bbd.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 Bbd.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

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