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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

livevan.ca

Concert Listings - LiveVan.com:  Vancouver concert listings and community-powered music directory

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

236 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

746 ms

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About Website

Welcome to livevan.ca homepage info - get ready to check Live Van best content right away, or after learning these important things about livevan.ca

Community Driven Music Listings integrated with Artist & Industry directories for Vancouver, BC. LiveVan.com: Maintained by thousands... because it works!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Livevan.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 236 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

livevan.ca performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

livevan.ca

236 ms

hideNShow.js

37 ms

jquery-1.12.4.js

38 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

34 ms

modernizr-2.0-small.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Livevan.ca, 27% (21 requests) were made to Images.indivision.ca and 13% (10 requests) were made to Img.youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Images.indivision.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Livevan.ca main page is 1.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 911.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 86.7 kB

  • Original 101.8 kB
  • After minification 82.7 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 19.1 kB, which is 19% 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 86.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 911.2 kB
  • After minification 904.1 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. Live Van images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 261.0 kB
  • After minification 261.0 kB
  • After compression 256.3 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 107.2 kB
  • After minification 107.2 kB
  • After compression 73.5 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. Livevan.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.7 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (40%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live Van. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

livevan.ca

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236 ms

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37 ms

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38 ms

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34 ms

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67 ms

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86 ms

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65 ms

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118 ms

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63 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

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46 ms

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64 ms

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95 ms

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93 ms

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92 ms

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94 ms

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Cost.svg

88 ms

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Location.svg

95 ms

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94 ms

In-person-mask.svg

In-person-mask.svg

96 ms

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69 ms

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108 ms

js

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239 ms

analytics.js

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27 ms

collect

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220 ms

AV-HomePage-Header_V3.jpg

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237 ms

quant.js

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262 ms

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199 ms

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199 ms

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iframe_api

207 ms

mhfontello.css

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81 ms

show_prefetch.json

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659 ms

artist_prefetch.json

artist_prefetch.json

1105 ms

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9 ms

Accessibility Review

livevan.ca accessibility score

54

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

livevan.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

livevan.ca SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Livevan.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 Livevan.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

livevan.ca

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