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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

welcomebc.ca

WelcomeBC - Immigration, moving to and working in BC - WelcomeBC

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

257 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

welcomebc.ca screenshot

About Website

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

Discover the beauty of British Columbia and its opportunities—learn about immigration, jobs, qualifications recognition, support services and more!

Visit welcomebc.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Welcomebc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 257 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

welcomebc.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.248

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welcomebc.ca

257 ms

www.welcomebc.ca

491 ms

sp-2-14-0.js

398 ms

GetCSS.aspx

527 ms

pa-5c3cc8a61872b50016000210.js

417 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Welcomebc.ca, 23% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Welcomebc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Welcomebc.ca main page is 1.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 74.6 kB
  • After minification 62.4 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.2 kB, which is 16% 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 53.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 40.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 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. WelcomeBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 416.0 kB
  • After minification 415.8 kB
  • After compression 370.6 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 45.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (65%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WelcomeBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

welcomebc.ca

welcomebc.ca

257 ms

www.welcomebc.ca

www.welcomebc.ca

491 ms

sp-2-14-0.js

sp-2-14-0.js

398 ms

GetCSS.aspx

GetCSS.aspx

527 ms

pa-5c3cc8a61872b50016000210.js

pa-5c3cc8a61872b50016000210.js

417 ms

jquery-core.js

jquery-core.js

375 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

376 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

224 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

296 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

225 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

18 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

446 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

807 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

36 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

40 ms

welcomebc-header-logo.svg

welcomebc-header-logo.svg

172 ms

Carousel-credentials_resized.aspx

Carousel-credentials_resized.aspx

391 ms

Newcomers-Guide-cover_Jly2017-1200X400.jpg.aspx

Newcomers-Guide-cover_Jly2017-1200X400.jpg.aspx

813 ms

Your-Career-in-BC.jpg.aspx

Your-Career-in-BC.jpg.aspx

756 ms

Career_Paths-1200x400-June-2017.jpg.aspx

Career_Paths-1200x400-June-2017.jpg.aspx

682 ms

bc-logo.svg

bc-logo.svg

458 ms

dee0hsr.js

dee0hsr.js

158 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

BCSans-Regular.woff

BCSans-Regular.woff

858 ms

BCSans-Bold.woff

BCSans-Bold.woff

1019 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

js

js

53 ms

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60 ms

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109 ms

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74 ms

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73 ms

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65 ms

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74 ms

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164 ms

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163 ms

d

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164 ms

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163 ms

tp2

tp2

283 ms

print.js

print.js

206 ms

content-preview-toggle.js

content-preview-toggle.js

400 ms

profile-toc.js

profile-toc.js

456 ms

input-range.js

input-range.js

527 ms

p.gif

p.gif

34 ms

chev-white.svg

chev-white.svg

291 ms

element.js

element.js

43 ms

custom-placeholders.js

custom-placeholders.js

224 ms

promo-area.js

promo-area.js

230 ms

Accessibility Review

welcomebc.ca accessibility score

65

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

welcomebc.ca best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

welcomebc.ca SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

welcomebc.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of WelcomeBC. 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: