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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% 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

rcbc.ca

Recycling Council of British Columbia

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

738 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rcbc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rcbc.ca performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,220 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.267

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rcbc.ca

92 ms

rcbc.ca

135 ms

style.min.css

27 ms

jquery.qtip.min.css

68 ms

default-calendar-grid.min.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Rcbc.ca, 11% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 9% (7 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (467 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rcbc.ca main page is 4.3 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. 75% 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 67.8 kB

  • Original 86.9 kB
  • After minification 80.2 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. 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 67.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Rcbc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 329.8 kB
  • After minification 329.8 kB
  • After compression 327.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 104.2 kB
  • After compression 99.5 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. Rcbc.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (72%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rcbc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rcbc.ca

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92 ms

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135 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

27 ms

jquery.qtip.min.css

jquery.qtip.min.css

68 ms

default-calendar-grid.min.css

default-calendar-grid.min.css

56 ms

default-calendar-list.min.css

default-calendar-list.min.css

55 ms

all.css

all.css

78 ms

css

css

75 ms

all.css

all.css

92 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

70 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

69 ms

dal8fdx.css

dal8fdx.css

342 ms

main-style.css

main-style.css

56 ms

aos.css

aos.css

71 ms

v4-shims.css

v4-shims.css

113 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

68 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

69 ms

aos.js

aos.js

82 ms

aos.css

aos.css

93 ms

widget

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162 ms

basic.min.css

basic.min.css

72 ms

theme-ie11.min.css

theme-ie11.min.css

80 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

86 ms

api.js

api.js

88 ms

jquery.qtip.min.js

jquery.qtip.min.js

86 ms

default-calendar.min.js

default-calendar.min.js

82 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

79 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

79 ms

70e2536a21.js

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98 ms

bundle.js

bundle.js

80 ms

maps.js

maps.js

84 ms

animations.js

animations.js

92 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

92 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

97 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

108 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

99 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

100 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

110 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

114 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

113 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

121 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

113 ms

frontend-legacy.min.js

frontend-legacy.min.js

125 ms

aos.css

aos.css

45 ms

widget.js

widget.js

42 ms

p.css

p.css

38 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

467 ms

maze-universal-loader.js

maze-universal-loader.js

421 ms

image-1.png

image-1.png

94 ms

Recycling-Line-600x900-1.jpg

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458 ms

Inform-Icon.svg

Inform-Icon.svg

84 ms

Share-Icon.svg

Share-Icon.svg

87 ms

Influence-Icon.svg

Influence-Icon.svg

85 ms

Frame.svg

Frame.svg

81 ms

Food-Recycle-Icon.svg

Food-Recycle-Icon.svg

409 ms

Paper-BAg-Icon.svg

Paper-BAg-Icon.svg

408 ms

Calendar-Icon.svg

Calendar-Icon.svg

410 ms

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378 ms

Fullwidth-Callout-BG.jpg

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413 ms

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378 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

378 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

377 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

235 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

233 ms

recaptcha__en.js

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223 ms

qathet-RRC-pond-with-incinerator-behind-1600x1068-1.jpg

qathet-RRC-pond-with-incinerator-behind-1600x1068-1.jpg

161 ms

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156 ms

Accessibility Review

rcbc.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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

rcbc.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rcbc.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 Rcbc.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 Rcbc.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

rcbc.ca

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