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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

thebanffexpress.com

The Banff Express - Scheduled Bus Service Between Banff, Canmore and Calgary.

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

122 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

444 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Banff Express content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thebanffexpress.com

Affordable travel between Banff, Canmore and Calgary. Travel with the Banff Express direct to Downtown Calgary and Calgary Foothills Hospital from the heart of the Bow Valley.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebanffexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 122 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebanffexpress.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebanffexpress.com

122 ms

www.thebanffexpress.com

261 ms

devstyle.css

53 ms

jquery-ui.css

18 ms

css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Thebanffexpress.com, 25% (3 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (824 ms) belongs to the original domain Thebanffexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.9 kB (0%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebanffexpress.com main page is 2.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 11.7 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. 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 8.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. The Banff Express images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. Thebanffexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Banff Express. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thebanffexpress.com

thebanffexpress.com

122 ms

www.thebanffexpress.com

www.thebanffexpress.com

261 ms

devstyle.css

devstyle.css

53 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

18 ms

css

css

27 ms

jquery-1.12.4.js

jquery-1.12.4.js

22 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

25 ms

logo.png

logo.png

105 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

824 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

158 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

159 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

19 ms

Accessibility Review

thebanffexpress.com accessibility score

89

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

thebanffexpress.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thebanffexpress.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebanffexpress.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thebanffexpress.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

thebanffexpress.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Banff Express. 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: