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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

bclaws.ca

Laws Publications - Government

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

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About Website

Visit bclaws.ca now to see the best up-to-date Bc Laws content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bclaws.ca

Find information on British Columbia's legal system, assistance programs and services, family justice help and resolving disputes outside of courts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bclaws.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 2.6 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

bclaws.ca performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bclaws.ca

225 ms

www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca

528 ms

bootstrap.min.css

271 ms

main.css

379 ms

navMenu.css

311 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Bclaws.ca, 92% (47 requests) were made to Bclaws.gov.bc.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (894 ms) relates to the external source Bclaws.gov.bc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.3 kB (61%)

Content Size

597.6 kB

After Optimization

233.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bclaws.ca main page is 597.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 184.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 83.9 kB

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 76.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.8 kB, which is 21% 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 83.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 155.4 kB
  • After minification 143.2 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. Bc Laws images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 113.6 kB

  • Original 161.4 kB
  • After minification 159.8 kB
  • After compression 47.8 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 113.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 154.6 kB

  • Original 184.0 kB
  • After minification 162.1 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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. Bclaws.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 154.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bc Laws. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bclaws.ca

bclaws.ca

225 ms

www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca

www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca

528 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

271 ms

main.css

main.css

379 ms

navMenu.css

navMenu.css

311 ms

layout-mobile.css

layout-mobile.css

278 ms

custom.css

custom.css

301 ms

navMenu.js

navMenu.js

276 ms

jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js

403 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

549 ms

webtrends.js

webtrends.js

297 ms

gov_bc_logo.svg

gov_bc_logo.svg

118 ms

menu-ico-sm.png

menu-ico-sm.png

102 ms

licence.png

licence.png

102 ms

laws.jpg

laws.jpg

97 ms

gaz2.jpg

gaz2.jpg

125 ms

act-ministry.jpg

act-ministry.jpg

123 ms

consolidated.jpg

consolidated.jpg

201 ms

bills.jpg

bills.jpg

181 ms

order-in-council.jpg

order-in-council.jpg

195 ms

pdf-collection.jpg

pdf-collection.jpg

197 ms

proclamations.jpg

proclamations.jpg

217 ms

corporate-reg.jpg

corporate-reg.jpg

222 ms

reg-bull.jpg

reg-bull.jpg

262 ms

gaz1.jpg

gaz1.jpg

299 ms

rules-of-court.jpg

rules-of-court.jpg

278 ms

buckram-bound-graphic.jpg

buckram-bound-graphic.jpg

294 ms

arch-reg.jpg

arch-reg.jpg

299 ms

history.jpg

history.jpg

307 ms

trrp.jpg

trrp.jpg

354 ms

expro.jpg

expro.jpg

364 ms

housing2.jpg

housing2.jpg

446 ms

buckram.jpg

buckram.jpg

392 ms

open-data.jpg

open-data.jpg

405 ms

archives.jpg

archives.jpg

414 ms

back-to-top.png

back-to-top.png

447 ms

footer_expandbutton_solid.png

footer_expandbutton_solid.png

456 ms

footer_collapsebutton_solid.png

footer_collapsebutton_solid.png

501 ms

themepage_lawcrime.png

themepage_lawcrime.png

562 ms

BCSans-Regular.woff

BCSans-Regular.woff

480 ms

BCSans-Regular.woff

BCSans-Regular.woff

825 ms

BCSans-Bold.woff

BCSans-Bold.woff

506 ms

BCSans-Bold.woff

BCSans-Bold.woff

692 ms

BCSans-Italic.woff

BCSans-Italic.woff

514 ms

BCSans-Italic.woff

BCSans-Italic.woff

894 ms

404-BClaws.html

404-BClaws.html

442 ms

404-BClaws.html

404-BClaws.html

415 ms

404-BClaws.html

404-BClaws.html

368 ms

404-BClaws.html

404-BClaws.html

84 ms

404-BClaws.html

404-BClaws.html

172 ms

404-BClaws.html

404-BClaws.html

90 ms

Accessibility Review

bclaws.ca accessibility score

91

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

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

bclaws.ca best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bclaws.ca SEO score

83

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 Bclaws.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 Bclaws.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

bclaws.ca

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