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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

vibrantvictoria.ca

VibrantVictoria | Victoria, BC's discussion forum platform since 2006 | High-level Discussions Are Underway

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

671 ms

Page Rendered

367 ms

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About Website

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Since 2006 VibrantVictoria has served as Victoria, BCs premier discussion forum portal for topics such as real-estate and land development, new condominium and housing projects, transit and road infra...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vibrantvictoria.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vibrantvictoria.ca performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.417

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vibrantvictoria.ca

47 ms

forum

15 ms

forum

74 ms

99 ms

jquery.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Vibrantvictoria.ca, 7% (5 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (223 ms) relates to the external source Servedby.revive-adserver.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vibrantvictoria.ca main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 155.0 kB

  • Original 190.2 kB
  • After minification 172.8 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. 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 155.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 307.7 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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, Vibrant Victoria needs image optimization as it can save up to 307.7 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 165.6 kB
  • After minification 157.3 kB
  • After compression 116.8 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 48.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 78 B

  • Original 820 B
  • After minification 820 B
  • After compression 742 B

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. Vibrantvictoria.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (37%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vibrant Victoria. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vibrantvictoria.ca

vibrantvictoria.ca

47 ms

forum

forum

15 ms

forum

forum

74 ms

99 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

17 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

55 ms

ipb.js

ipb.js

43 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

79 ms

ipb.lang.js

ipb.lang.js

79 ms

float.css

float.css

78 ms

social_citified.js

social_citified.js

76 ms

asyncjs.php

asyncjs.php

223 ms

effects.js

effects.js

13 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

18 ms

builder.js

builder.js

25 ms

ips.quickpm.js

ips.quickpm.js

16 ms

ips.hovercard.js

ips.hovercard.js

17 ms

ips.board.js

ips.board.js

17 ms

all.js

all.js

105 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

169 ms

social_close.png

social_close.png

33 ms

vv_logosmall.png

vv_logosmall.png

34 ms

citified_logosmall.png

citified_logosmall.png

34 ms

VV-Header-May-2017-5290x76_top.jpg

VV-Header-May-2017-5290x76_top.jpg

84 ms

citified.png

citified.png

74 ms

VV-Header-May-2017-5290x322_centre.jpg

VV-Header-May-2017-5290x322_centre.jpg

149 ms

VV-Header-May-2017-5290x70_bottom.jpg

VV-Header-May-2017-5290x70_bottom.jpg

109 ms

advanced_search.png

advanced_search.png

73 ms

search_icon.png

search_icon.png

84 ms

useropts_arrow.png

useropts_arrow.png

83 ms

maintitle.png

maintitle.png

84 ms

cat_minimize.png

cat_minimize.png

96 ms

f_icon_read_vv.png

f_icon_read_vv.png

96 ms

subforum_stem.png

subforum_stem.png

98 ms

major-projects-underway.png

major-projects-underway.png

145 ms

1400-van.jpg

1400-van.jpg

108 ms

tresah.jpg

tresah.jpg

110 ms

nest.jpg

nest.jpg

111 ms

Dockside_Green.jpg

Dockside_Green.jpg

138 ms

haven.jpg

haven.jpg

142 ms

photo-3.gif

photo-3.gif

144 ms

photo-thumb-949.jpeg

photo-thumb-949.jpeg

143 ms

photo-thumb-4657.jpg

photo-thumb-4657.jpg

144 ms

photo-4001.gif

photo-4001.gif

146 ms

popular-topics.png

popular-topics.png

152 ms

homelessness.jpg

homelessness.jpg

148 ms

traffic-incidents.jpg

traffic-incidents.jpg

146 ms

urban-deer.jpg

urban-deer.jpg

149 ms

photo-thumb-96.jpg

photo-thumb-96.jpg

150 ms

photo-thumb-1222.jpg

photo-thumb-1222.jpg

149 ms

housing-values.jpg

housing-values.jpg

150 ms

tourism.jpg

tourism.jpg

151 ms

victoria-economy.jpg

victoria-economy.jpg

159 ms

New-Johnson-Street-Bridge.jpg

New-Johnson-Street-Bridge.jpg

161 ms

City-Parking.jpg

City-Parking.jpg

161 ms

all.js

all.js

17 ms

Road-Network.jpg

Road-Network.jpg

137 ms

Victoria-Rapid-Transit.jpg

Victoria-Rapid-Transit.jpg

138 ms

Victoria-BC-Transit.jpg

Victoria-BC-Transit.jpg

143 ms

default_large.png

default_large.png

48 ms

Rail-Transit-and-Commuter-Rail.jpg

Rail-Transit-and-Commuter-Rail.jpg

128 ms

BC-Ferries.jpg

BC-Ferries.jpg

129 ms

default_large.png

default_large.png

10 ms

Cruise-Ships-in-Victoria.jpg

Cruise-Ships-in-Victoria.jpg

120 ms

Victoria_International_Airport.png

Victoria_International_Airport.png

121 ms

Floatplanes.jpg

Floatplanes.jpg

118 ms

photo-1147.gif

photo-1147.gif

119 ms

police_amalgamation.png

police_amalgamation.png

111 ms

amalgamation.png

amalgamation.png

112 ms

top.png

top.png

108 ms

feed.png

feed.png

100 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

63 ms

Accessibility Review

vibrantvictoria.ca accessibility score

62

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

vibrantvictoria.ca best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

vibrantvictoria.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

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 doesn't use 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 Vibrantvictoria.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 Vibrantvictoria.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

vibrantvictoria.ca

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