Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

qc.bluecross.ca

Travel Insurance and Health Insurance - Québec Blue Cross

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

831 ms

qc.bluecross.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Qc.bluecross.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

qc.bluecross.ca performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,770 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.438

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value149.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

qc.bluecross.ca

112 ms

loader.js

503 ms

index~2024-06-19-17-54-54-196~cache.css

58 ms

css2

37 ms

index~2024-06-19-17-54-54-196~cache.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Qc.bluecross.ca, 69% (79 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Sdk.privacy-center.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 157.1 kB (77%)

Content Size

203.2 kB

After Optimization

46.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Qc.bluecross.ca main page is 203.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 180.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 156.7 kB

  • Original 180.9 kB
  • After minification 147.7 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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 33.3 kB, which is 18% 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 156.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 387 B

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (12%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Qc Blue Cross. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

qc.bluecross.ca accessibility score

86

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

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

qc.bluecross.ca best practices score

67

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

qc.bluecross.ca SEO score

86

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

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 Qc.bluecross.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 Qc.bluecross.ca main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8;. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Qc Blue Cross. 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: