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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

tranbc.ca

TranBC: BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Online

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

364 ms

tranbc.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing TranBC content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about tranbc.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tranbc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tranbc.ca performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.302

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tranbc.ca

252 ms

www.tranbc.ca

1224 ms

style.min.css

296 ms

unsemantic-grid.min.css

234 ms

style.min.css

299 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Tranbc.ca, 2% (1 request) were made to Www2.gov.bc.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Tranbc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 736.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tranbc.ca main page is 3.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 94.9 kB

  • Original 116.3 kB
  • After minification 114.8 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 94.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 382.8 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Obviously, TranBC needs image optimization as it can save up to 382.8 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 90.5 kB

  • Original 136.0 kB
  • After minification 135.9 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 90.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 168.3 kB

  • Original 200.9 kB
  • After minification 189.3 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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. Tranbc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (50%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TranBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tranbc.ca

tranbc.ca

252 ms

www.tranbc.ca

www.tranbc.ca

1224 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

296 ms

unsemantic-grid.min.css

unsemantic-grid.min.css

234 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

299 ms

mobile.min.css

mobile.min.css

301 ms

style.css

style.css

304 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

304 ms

navigation-branding.min.css

navigation-branding.min.css

308 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

307 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

261 ms

public.css

public.css

261 ms

public.css

public.css

261 ms

menu.min.js

menu.min.js

262 ms

navigation-search.min.js

navigation-search.min.js

261 ms

back-to-top.min.js

back-to-top.min.js

262 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

377 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

302 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

305 ms

script.min.js

script.min.js

305 ms

BC_MOTI_LOGO.svg

BC_MOTI_LOGO.svg

123 ms

TRANBC_LOGO.svg

TRANBC_LOGO.svg

128 ms

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19xxxxxxc_construction_061553-scaled-800x450.jpg

266 ms

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Cut-2-Western-end-of-KHC-Oct-10-21-800x450.jpg

338 ms

AFAD-Hwy-3-EB-about-450-metres-E-of-Hwy-3-5-split-E-of-Hope-e1697502382598-525x295.jpg

AFAD-Hwy-3-EB-about-450-metres-E-of-Hwy-3-5-split-E-of-Hope-e1697502382598-525x295.jpg

268 ms

Cool-Woman-800x450.jpg

Cool-Woman-800x450.jpg

274 ms

Bison-Hwy-77-800x450.jpg

Bison-Hwy-77-800x450.jpg

280 ms

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betterments.png

564 ms

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19xxxxxxc_construction_061553-780x585.jpg

413 ms

G-Lord-TELP.jpg

G-Lord-TELP.jpg

419 ms

Twin-Falls_Ryan-James_FB-780x585.jpg

Twin-Falls_Ryan-James_FB-780x585.jpg

507 ms

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6070379263_74f3ba0ad0_k-768x576.jpg

507 ms

BCRoadTrip2023-Blog-Banner-780x585.png

BCRoadTrip2023-Blog-Banner-780x585.png

707 ms

DSC_0092-780x585.jpg

DSC_0092-780x585.jpg

491 ms

sp-2-14-0.js

sp-2-14-0.js

392 ms

noto-sans-v9-latin-regular.woff

noto-sans-v9-latin-regular.woff

404 ms

noto-sans-v9-latin-700.woff

noto-sans-v9-latin-700.woff

475 ms

noto-sans-semicondensed-500.woff

noto-sans-semicondensed-500.woff

488 ms

noto-sans-semicondensed-600.woff

noto-sans-semicondensed-600.woff

488 ms

noto-sans-semicondensed-700.woff

noto-sans-semicondensed-700.woff

510 ms

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white.png

393 ms

Accessibility Review

tranbc.ca accessibility score

96

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

tranbc.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

tranbc.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 Tranbc.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 Tranbc.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

tranbc.ca

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