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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

bcitfsa.ca

BCIT FSA | British Columbia Institute of Technology Faculty & Staff Asssociation

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

247 ms

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About Website

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

The BCIT Faculty & Staff Association (FSA) is a membership driven, certified trade union that represents full-time and part-time technological faculty and staff at BCIT.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcitfsa.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bcitfsa.ca performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.292

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bcitfsa.ca

271 ms

www.bcitfsa.ca

1831 ms

js

93 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

214 ms

styles.css

242 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Bcitfsa.ca, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Bcitfsa.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (34%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcitfsa.ca main page is 3.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.0 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 60.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. BCIT FSA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 309.1 kB

  • Original 528.5 kB
  • After minification 494.7 kB
  • After compression 219.4 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 309.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 598.6 kB

  • Original 677.4 kB
  • After minification 641.8 kB
  • After compression 78.8 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. Bcitfsa.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 598.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (69%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BCIT FSA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bcitfsa.ca

bcitfsa.ca

271 ms

www.bcitfsa.ca

www.bcitfsa.ca

1831 ms

js

js

93 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

214 ms

styles.css

styles.css

242 ms

css

css

37 ms

css

css

84 ms

reset.css

reset.css

243 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

244 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

245 ms

jquery.qtip.css

jquery.qtip.css

277 ms

jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.css

294 ms

animations.css

animations.css

325 ms

style.css

style.css

486 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

482 ms

custom.css

custom.css

327 ms

generic-no-float.min.css

generic-no-float.min.css

358 ms

default.min.css

default.min.css

374 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

1250 ms

custom.css

custom.css

406 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

606 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

454 ms

js

js

82 ms

widget-theme.min.css

widget-theme.min.css

364 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

408 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

475 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

439 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

444 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

488 ms

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

518 ms

accordion.min.js

accordion.min.js

527 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

557 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

565 ms

jquery.ba-bbq.min.js

jquery.ba-bbq.min.js

568 ms

jquery.history.js

jquery.history.js

601 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

606 ms

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

699 ms

jquery.sliderControl.js

jquery.sliderControl.js

645 ms

jquery.timeago.js

jquery.timeago.js

648 ms

jquery.hint.js

jquery.hint.js

680 ms

jquery.isotope.min.js

jquery.isotope.min.js

687 ms

jquery.isotope.masonry.js

jquery.isotope.masonry.js

724 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

645 ms

jquery.qtip.min.js

jquery.qtip.min.js

652 ms

jquery.blockUI.js

jquery.blockUI.js

656 ms

main.js

main.js

695 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

690 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

660 ms

bcitfsa-logo.png

bcitfsa-logo.png

99 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

98 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

98 ms

googleplus.png

googleplus.png

99 ms

icon_arrow_margin_right_white.png

icon_arrow_margin_right_white.png

99 ms

NW4_Exterior.jpg

NW4_Exterior.jpg

641 ms

SK_Speech.jpg

SK_Speech.jpg

650 ms

Meeting_Vote.jpg

Meeting_Vote.jpg

882 ms

preloader.gif

preloader.gif

162 ms

New_CA-480x300.jpg

New_CA-480x300.jpg

163 ms

Untitled-1-480x300.png

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411 ms

IMG_1340_Websize-480x300.jpg

IMG_1340_Websize-480x300.jpg

322 ms

icon_arrow_right_white.png

icon_arrow_right_white.png

211 ms

mail.png

mail.png

292 ms

icon_arrow_top_white.png

icon_arrow_top_white.png

369 ms

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oswald-regular-webfont.woff

373 ms

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New_CA-480x300.jpg

335 ms

Untitled-1-480x300.png

Untitled-1-480x300.png

580 ms

IMG_1340_Websize-480x300.jpg

IMG_1340_Websize-480x300.jpg

343 ms

Accessibility Review

bcitfsa.ca accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

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.

Best Practices

bcitfsa.ca 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

bcitfsa.ca SEO score

79

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

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 Bcitfsa.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 Bcitfsa.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

bcitfsa.ca

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