Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

wcb.ab.ca

WCB Alberta

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

271 ms

wcb.ab.ca screenshot

About Website

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Providing workplace insurance and supporting return to work for a strong, healthy Alberta.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wcb.ab.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wcb.ab.ca performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wcb.ab.ca

293 ms

gtm.js

107 ms

reset.css

163 ms

bootstrap.min.css

216 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.css

217 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Wcb.ab.ca, 8% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (820 ms) belongs to the original domain Wcb.ab.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Wcb.ab.ca main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 100.1 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 25.9 kB, which is 26% 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 88.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 87.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. WCB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 104.1 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 28.1 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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. Wcb.ab.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (63%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WCB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wcb.ab.ca accessibility score

81

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

wcb.ab.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

wcb.ab.ca SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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