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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

vgc.ca

VGC International College I Business & English Courses in Vancouver

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

623 ms

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About Website

Visit vgc.ca now to see the best up-to-date VGC content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vgc.ca

Award-winning Vancouver language school & international college. ESL, University Pathways, Business, Co-op. In-person & Online Classes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vgc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vgc.ca performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.425

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vgc.ca

346 ms

css2

49 ms

client-blocks.css

23 ms

style.css

41 ms

photoswipe.min.css

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Vgc.ca, 19% (11 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Vgc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vgc.ca main page is 4.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 87.4 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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 72.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. VGC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 134 B

  • Original 240.1 kB
  • After minification 240.1 kB
  • After compression 240.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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. Vgc.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (35%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VGC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vgc.ca

vgc.ca

346 ms

css2

css2

49 ms

client-blocks.css

client-blocks.css

23 ms

style.css

style.css

41 ms

photoswipe.min.css

photoswipe.min.css

121 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

123 ms

all.css

all.css

54 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

54 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

48 ms

foundation.accordion.min.js

foundation.accordion.min.js

517 ms

ScrollTrigger.min.js

ScrollTrigger.min.js

429 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

425 ms

application.js

application.js

46 ms

css

css

45 ms

trustindex-google-widget.css

trustindex-google-widget.css

46 ms

rs6.css

rs6.css

57 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

66 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

81 ms

loader.js

loader.js

48 ms

js

js

69 ms

print.css

print.css

21 ms

VGC-Logo-355x150-1.png

VGC-Logo-355x150-1.png

289 ms

photo.jpg

photo.jpg

477 ms

f.svg

f.svg

228 ms

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491 ms

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660 ms

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702 ms

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868 ms

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610 ms

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720 ms

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843 ms

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822 ms

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870 ms

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dummy.png

204 ms

fp-achievements-bg.jpeg

fp-achievements-bg.jpeg

208 ms

National-indigenous-history-month_Blog-Header.jpg

National-indigenous-history-month_Blog-Header.jpg

219 ms

KYOKO01a.jpg

KYOKO01a.jpg

217 ms

BLOG_TOPCHOICE2024_01.jpg

BLOG_TOPCHOICE2024_01.jpg

1264 ms

COMPASS01.webp

COMPASS01.webp

245 ms

Study-Permit-02.jpg

Study-Permit-02.jpg

1359 ms

VGCxNexPay.jpg

VGCxNexPay.jpg

1459 ms

InternationalStudents.jpg

InternationalStudents.jpg

243 ms

IMG_7748.jpg

IMG_7748.jpg

290 ms

Blog_TopChoice2023_02162023.jpg

Blog_TopChoice2023_02162023.jpg

289 ms

Blog_20thAnniv_02142023.jpg

Blog_20thAnniv_02142023.jpg

291 ms

logo-vgc-white-600x251.png

logo-vgc-white-600x251.png

292 ms

ACCREDITATION2023-1024x499.png

ACCREDITATION2023-1024x499.png

405 ms

PTIB.png

PTIB.png

406 ms

icon.svg

icon.svg

203 ms

e.svg

e.svg

205 ms

font

font

395 ms

font

font

243 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

44 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

57 ms

font

font

243 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

58 ms

Accessibility Review

vgc.ca accessibility score

88

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

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

vgc.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vgc.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 Vgc.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 Vgc.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

vgc.ca

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