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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ltgov.bc.ca

Government House - The Honourable Janet Austin, OBC

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

984 ms

Page Rendered

452 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ltgov.bc.ca homepage info - get ready to check Ltgov best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about ltgov.bc.ca

Welcome to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor and to Government House, the ceremonial home of all British Columbians.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ltgov.bc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ltgov.bc.ca performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ltgov.bc.ca

42 ms

ltgov.bc.ca

409 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

97 ms

style.min.css

24 ms

classic-themes.min.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Ltgov.bc.ca, 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (409 ms) belongs to the original domain Ltgov.bc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ltgov.bc.ca main page is 5.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 69.9 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 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 58.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 150.3 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Ltgov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 120.0 kB
  • After minification 120.0 kB
  • After compression 115.5 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 57.2 kB
  • After compression 53.0 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. Ltgov.bc.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (63%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ltgov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ltgov.bc.ca

ltgov.bc.ca

42 ms

ltgov.bc.ca

ltgov.bc.ca

409 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

97 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

24 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

93 ms

styles.css

styles.css

95 ms

lightgallery.css

lightgallery.css

113 ms

mu-style.css

mu-style.css

103 ms

style.css

style.css

109 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

186 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

182 ms

custom-style.css

custom-style.css

180 ms

style.css

style.css

186 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

205 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

196 ms

lightgallery.js

lightgallery.js

272 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

15 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

281 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

275 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

280 ms

theme-script.js

theme-script.js

206 ms

lg-zoom

lg-zoom

35 ms

index.js

index.js

343 ms

index.js

index.js

219 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

345 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

366 ms

css

css

29 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

63 ms

LGCrest.svg

LGCrest.svg

91 ms

LGCrestMonoWhite.svg

LGCrestMonoWhite.svg

51 ms

SummerNews_Banner.jpg

SummerNews_Banner.jpg

95 ms

ExploreBCwiththeLG-icon.jpg

ExploreBCwiththeLG-icon.jpg

104 ms

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54 ms

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139 ms

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musiconthelawn-5jacksajill-10.jpg

141 ms

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172 ms

rose-30-compressed.jpg

rose-30-compressed.jpg

172 ms

VWP_totem085.jpg

VWP_totem085.jpg

180 ms

firstpoppy-3.jpg

firstpoppy-3.jpg

173 ms

gardenguide-30.jpg

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226 ms

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37 ms

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54 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

181 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

js

js

63 ms

Accessibility Review

ltgov.bc.ca accessibility score

73

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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.

Best Practices

ltgov.bc.ca best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ltgov.bc.ca SEO score

93

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

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 Ltgov.bc.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 Ltgov.bc.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

ltgov.bc.ca

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