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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

columbiavalley.ca

Columbia Valley | Windermere Valley | East Kootenays | BC Rockies information

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

445 ms

Resources Loaded

862 ms

Page Rendered

157 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbiavalley.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 445 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

columbiavalley.ca performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

columbiavalley.ca

445 ms

node.css

130 ms

poll.css

131 ms

defaults.css

130 ms

system.css

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Columbiavalley.ca, 6% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (445 ms) belongs to the original domain Columbiavalley.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

238.8 kB

After Optimization

188.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Columbiavalley.ca main page is 238.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 89.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 21.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 89.5 kB
  • After minification 87.9 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. Columbia Valley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 87.6 kB
  • After minification 87.6 kB
  • After compression 86.6 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.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 33.0 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Columbiavalley.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (39%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbia Valley. 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 from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

columbiavalley.ca

columbiavalley.ca

445 ms

node.css

node.css

130 ms

poll.css

poll.css

131 ms

defaults.css

defaults.css

130 ms

system.css

system.css

132 ms

user.css

user.css

130 ms

content.css

content.css

133 ms

ed_classified.css

ed_classified.css

200 ms

fckeditor.css

fckeditor.css

194 ms

style.css

style.css

257 ms

print.css

print.css

262 ms

serve.php

serve.php

259 ms

logo.png

logo.png

197 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

25 ms

serve.php

serve.php

253 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

body.png

body.png

69 ms

title-block-LEFT-standard.gif

title-block-LEFT-standard.gif

71 ms

menu-leaf.gif

menu-leaf.gif

67 ms

a_main.jpg

a_main.jpg

131 ms

m_golf.jpg

m_golf.jpg

69 ms

m_beach.jpg

m_beach.jpg

109 ms

m_canoe.jpg

m_canoe.jpg

133 ms

m_snow.jpg

m_snow.jpg

136 ms

coldwell_wind1.jpg

coldwell_wind1.jpg

134 ms

bmv1.jpg

bmv1.jpg

135 ms

chwcf1.jpg

chwcf1.jpg

169 ms

vacrent1.jpg

vacrent1.jpg

197 ms

aksik1.jpg

aksik1.jpg

198 ms

cvp1.jpg

cvp1.jpg

199 ms

flook.jpg

flook.jpg

199 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

54 ms

success_0.jpg

success_0.jpg

162 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

Accessibility Review

columbiavalley.ca accessibility score

94

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

columbiavalley.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

columbiavalley.ca SEO score

69

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

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 Columbiavalley.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 Columbiavalley.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

columbiavalley.ca

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