Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

columbiavalley.com

Columbia Valley Tourism Guide | East Kootenay | Official Travel Guide & Events Calendar

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

306 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Columbia Valley content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about columbiavalley.com

Official tourism guide for the Columbia Valley in East Kootenay BC, an all-season recreation paradise with something for everyone. Come visit us!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbiavalley.com page load time and found that the first response time was 306 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

columbiavalley.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,760 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.163

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

columbiavalley.com

306 ms

columbiavalley.com

1945 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

109 ms

autoptimize_single_fd6a2e752afd9088dee2ce22080bead9.css

214 ms

autoptimize_single_51bcbfb1a010eb8105da42eb4449cf2d.css

294 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Columbiavalley.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Columbiavalley.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 200.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Columbiavalley.com main page is 1.7 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 931.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 182.8 kB

  • Original 215.5 kB
  • After minification 215.3 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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 182.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 931.2 kB
  • After minification 917.4 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 3.6 kB

  • Original 414.1 kB
  • After minification 414.1 kB
  • After compression 410.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 472 B

  • Original 166.6 kB
  • After minification 166.6 kB
  • After compression 166.1 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.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (63%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 108 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 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

columbiavalley.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

columbiavalley.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

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.com SEO score

93

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

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.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 Columbiavalley.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

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