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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thecastle.ca

Craigdarroch Castle | Visit Canada's Castle | Victoria BC

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

335 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

796 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Castle content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thecastle.ca

Craigdarroch Castle is a national historic site and a visit to the Castle is the quintessential Victoria, BC experience. Discover Craigdarroch Castle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecastle.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecastle.ca performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,180 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.488

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecastle.ca

335 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

242 ms

events_manager.css

81 ms

events-manager-pro.css

78 ms

responsive-google-maps.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thecastle.ca, 89% (57 requests) were made to Craigdarroch-trapezecommunica.netdna-ssl.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (867 ms) relates to the external source Craigdarroch-trapezecommunica.netdna-ssl.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (78%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

666.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecastle.ca main page is 3.0 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. 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 81.1 kB

  • Original 98.4 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 81.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 245.7 kB
  • After minification 205.3 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. Obviously, The Castle needs image optimization as it can save up to 40.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 312.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 131.4 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. Thecastle.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (63%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Castle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecastle.ca

thecastle.ca

335 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

242 ms

events_manager.css

events_manager.css

81 ms

events-manager-pro.css

events-manager-pro.css

78 ms

responsive-google-maps.css

responsive-google-maps.css

80 ms

styles.css

styles.css

103 ms

pe-line-icons.css

pe-line-icons.css

83 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

78 ms

icomoon-fonts.css

icomoon-fonts.css

85 ms

theme-icons.css

theme-icons.css

83 ms

css

css

81 ms

css

css

161 ms

style.css

style.css

78 ms

custom.css

custom.css

81 ms

js_composer.css

js_composer.css

122 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

87 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

87 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

83 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

85 ms

position.min.js

position.min.js

85 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

87 ms

sortable.min.js

sortable.min.js

86 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

88 ms

menu.min.js

menu.min.js

87 ms

autocomplete.min.js

autocomplete.min.js

115 ms

resizable.min.js

resizable.min.js

116 ms

draggable.min.js

draggable.min.js

146 ms

button.min.js

button.min.js

116 ms

dialog.min.js

dialog.min.js

145 ms

events-manager.js

events-manager.js

146 ms

events-manager-pro.js

events-manager-pro.js

148 ms

more-styles.css

more-styles.css

148 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

111 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

109 ms

scripts-vendors.js

scripts-vendors.js

180 ms

smoothscroll.js

smoothscroll.js

174 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

177 ms

jquerytransit.js

jquerytransit.js

176 ms

js_composer_front.js

js_composer_front.js

175 ms

more-scripts.js

more-scripts.js

175 ms

new-logo.png

new-logo.png

41 ms

chms-logo-mobile.png

chms-logo-mobile.png

42 ms

video-mask.png

video-mask.png

42 ms

logo-primary.png

logo-primary.png

43 ms

clock.png

clock.png

34 ms

compass.png

compass.png

36 ms

phone.png

phone.png

35 ms

castle-linedrawing.png

castle-linedrawing.png

35 ms

icon-meet_the_dunsmuirs.png

icon-meet_the_dunsmuirs.png

36 ms

icon-about_the_castle.png

icon-about_the_castle.png

37 ms

icon-plan_your_visit.png

icon-plan_your_visit.png

37 ms

footer-logo-full.png

footer-logo-full.png

37 ms

logo-attractions-victoria.png

logo-attractions-victoria.png

39 ms

logo-icc.png

logo-icc.png

40 ms

logo-trip-advisor.png

logo-trip-advisor.png

40 ms

ga.js

ga.js

108 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

867 ms

theme-icons.woff

theme-icons.woff

802 ms

blue_stained_glass.jpg

blue_stained_glass.jpg

248 ms

map-to-craigdarroch.jpg

map-to-craigdarroch.jpg

249 ms

lt-blue_stained_glass.jpg

lt-blue_stained_glass.jpg

233 ms

faded_interior_photo.jpg

faded_interior_photo.jpg

234 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

Accessibility Review

thecastle.ca accessibility score

97

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

thecastle.ca best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecastle.ca SEO score

85

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thecastle.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 Thecastle.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

thecastle.ca

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