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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

vec.ca

Vancouver English Corner

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

318 ms

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About Website

Welcome to vec.ca homepage info - get ready to check Vec best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about vec.ca

Learn English at one of Canada's leading language schools in downtown Vancouver, Canada. Offering 15 levels of English language courses, homestay, student activities, all teachers have recognized Engl...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vec.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vec.ca performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vec.ca

2045 ms

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82 ms

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77 ms

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Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (95 requests) were addressed to the original Vec.ca, 7% (10 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Vec.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (36%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vec.ca main page is 5.0 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. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 131.4 kB
  • After minification 117.6 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 108.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Vec images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 987.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 559.1 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 987.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 670.8 kB

  • Original 802.3 kB
  • After minification 750.5 kB
  • After compression 131.5 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. Vec.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 670.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (64%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 134 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

vec.ca accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

vec.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

vec.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

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 Vec.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 Vec.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

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