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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

vancouverwhalewatch.com

Whale-Watching Home - Vancouver Whale Watch

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

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About Website

Visit vancouverwhalewatch.com now to see the best up-to-date Vancouver Whale Watch content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vancouverwhalewatch.com

Vancouver Whale Watch is the original whale-watching company in Vancouver with a 95% sighting success rate on first class vessels.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vancouverwhalewatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vancouverwhalewatch.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vancouverwhalewatch.com

144 ms

main.css

84 ms

dropdown.css

108 ms

foundation.css

146 ms

dropdown.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Vancouverwhalewatch.com, 14% (8 requests) were made to Static.tacdn.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Tripadvisor.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (425 ms) belongs to the original domain Vancouverwhalewatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 292.4 kB (47%)

Content Size

616.9 kB

After Optimization

324.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vancouverwhalewatch.com main page is 616.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 242.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 25.8 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 8.6 kB, which is 25% 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 26.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 242.2 kB
  • After minification 230.9 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. Vancouver Whale Watch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 146.5 kB

  • Original 217.2 kB
  • After minification 216.7 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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 146.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 108.3 kB

  • Original 123.0 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Vancouverwhalewatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (52%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vancouver Whale Watch. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vancouverwhalewatch.com

vancouverwhalewatch.com

144 ms

main.css

main.css

84 ms

dropdown.css

dropdown.css

108 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

146 ms

dropdown.js

dropdown.js

63 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

105 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

425 ms

fastclick.js

fastclick.js

88 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

299 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

5 ms

wejs

wejs

114 ms

wejs

wejs

99 ms

all.js

all.js

90 ms

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get_flash_player.gif

9 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

84 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

32 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

171 ms

header-home.jpg

header-home.jpg

178 ms

bg-nav.jpg

bg-nav.jpg

83 ms

nav-arrow.gif

nav-arrow.gif

82 ms

BookNow_botton-2.jpg

BookNow_botton-2.jpg

194 ms

video_1.jpg

video_1.jpg

200 ms

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button_calendar_lrg.jpg

205 ms

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198 ms

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facebook_30px.png

240 ms

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twitter_30px.png

240 ms

button_gift_cert.jpg

button_gift_cert.jpg

351 ms

GuaranteedSightings_botton2.jpg

GuaranteedSightings_botton2.jpg

244 ms

boats_panel.jpg

boats_panel.jpg

349 ms

shuttle_panel.jpg

shuttle_panel.jpg

350 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

348 ms

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WidgetEmbed-socialButtonBubbles

42 ms

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26 ms

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2 ms

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78 ms

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77 ms

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WidgetEmbed-certificateOfExcellence

19 ms

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26 ms

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121 ms

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71 ms

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158 ms

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4 ms

BackgroundRuleBlack.gif

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5 ms

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86 ms

Accessibility Review

vancouverwhalewatch.com accessibility score

87

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

vancouverwhalewatch.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

vancouverwhalewatch.com 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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vancouverwhalewatch.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 Vancouverwhalewatch.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

vancouverwhalewatch.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Vancouver Whale Watch. 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: