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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

bcuc.com

Welcome to the British Columbia Utilities Commission - BCUC

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

838 ms

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bcuc.com homepage info - get ready to check BCUC best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about bcuc.com

Learn about the BCUC, how to get involved in our processes, and find information about current and previous proceedings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcuc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bcuc.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bcuc.com

50 ms

www.bcuc.com

58 ms

www.bcuc.com

96 ms

gtm.js

73 ms

css2

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Bcuc.com, 22% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Docs.bcuc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (497 ms) relates to the external source Docs.bcuc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcuc.com main page is 1.8 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 35.3 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 12.3 kB, which is 26% 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 37.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 80.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. BCUC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 132.9 kB
  • After minification 132.9 kB
  • After compression 117.5 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 15.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Bcuc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (58%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BCUC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bcuc.com

bcuc.com

50 ms

www.bcuc.com

www.bcuc.com

58 ms

www.bcuc.com

www.bcuc.com

96 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

73 ms

css2

css2

45 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

64 ms

cssbundle.min.css

cssbundle.min.css

119 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

318 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

309 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

44 ms

3e817abdda.js

3e817abdda.js

68 ms

widget.js

widget.js

343 ms

element.js

element.js

68 ms

jsbundle.min.js

jsbundle.min.js

194 ms

slick-config.js

slick-config.js

214 ms

js

js

110 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

33 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

101 ms

Videos-Banner.jpg

Videos-Banner.jpg

497 ms

Newsletter.jpg

Newsletter.jpg

469 ms

Home-Header.jpg

Home-Header.jpg

448 ms

Regulated-Entity-Map.jpg

Regulated-Entity-Map.jpg

447 ms

bcuc-logo.svg

bcuc-logo.svg

78 ms

Home-CallOutBox.jpg

Home-CallOutBox.jpg

289 ms

Home-BottomCallout-left.jpg

Home-BottomCallout-left.jpg

300 ms

Home-BottomCallout-right.jpg

Home-BottomCallout-right.jpg

288 ms

icon-play.svg

icon-play.svg

202 ms

bcuc-footer-logo.svg

bcuc-footer-logo.svg

320 ms

BCUC_Social_Icon_X.svg

BCUC_Social_Icon_X.svg

301 ms

BCUC_Social_Icon_LinkedIn.svg

BCUC_Social_Icon_LinkedIn.svg

299 ms

BCUC_Social_Icon_Facebook.svg

BCUC_Social_Icon_Facebook.svg

322 ms

BCUC_Social_Icon_YouTube.svg

BCUC_Social_Icon_YouTube.svg

321 ms

ai.2.min.js

ai.2.min.js

256 ms

collect

collect

145 ms

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insight_tag_errors.gif

235 ms

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js

119 ms

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48 ms

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icon-prev.svg

164 ms

icon-next.svg

icon-next.svg

165 ms

Accessibility Review

bcuc.com accessibility score

95

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

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

bcuc.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bcuc.com 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 Bcuc.com 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 Bcuc.com 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

bcuc.com

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