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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

bbcworldservice.com

World Service - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

bbcworldservice.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing BBC World Service content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bbcworldservice.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bbcworldservice.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bbcworldservice.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

worldserviceradio

1310 ms

orb.min.css

8 ms

musicfavourite.min.css

31 ms

dialog.css

10 ms

id-cta.css

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 174 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Bbcworldservice.com, 31% (54 requests) were made to Rmp.files.bbci.co.uk and 17% (29 requests) were made to Ichef.bbci.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Bbc.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bbcworldservice.com main page is 2.7 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 190.5 kB

  • Original 222.2 kB
  • After minification 208.0 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 190.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 715.5 kB
  • After minification 707.9 kB

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. BBC World Service images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 955.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 410.3 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 955.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 372.4 kB

  • Original 426.1 kB
  • After minification 354.2 kB
  • After compression 53.6 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. Bbcworldservice.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 372.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (57%)

Requests Now

169

After Optimization

73

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 169 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BBC World Service. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

worldserviceradio

worldserviceradio

1310 ms

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orb.min.css

8 ms

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musicfavourite.min.css

31 ms

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dialog.css

10 ms

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10 ms

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35 ms

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12 ms

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12 ms

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70 ms

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72 ms

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71 ms

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83 ms

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85 ms

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77 ms

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80 ms

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82 ms

bbc_world_service.svg

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84 ms

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85 ms

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117 ms

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125 ms

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131 ms

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119 ms

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129 ms

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134 ms

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bbc_radio_foyle.svg

133 ms

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bbc_radio_foyle_colour.svg

134 ms

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137 ms

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138 ms

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141 ms

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145 ms

local_white.svg

local_white.svg

144 ms

local_colour.svg

local_colour.svg

143 ms

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orb-search-light.png

59 ms

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59 ms

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65 ms

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140 ms

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119 ms

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113 ms

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79 ms

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6 ms

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icon.png

16 ms

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50 ms

statusbar.js

statusbar.js

118 ms

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53 ms

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53 ms

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47 ms

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48 ms

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39 ms

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70 ms

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73 ms

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live_panel_icons.png

67 ms

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71 ms

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67 ms

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73 ms

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9 ms

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5 ms

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58 ms

radioNav.js

radioNav.js

53 ms

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windowsPhoneApp.js

52 ms

radioNavStats.js

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50 ms

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356 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

88 ms

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em.js

205 ms

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orb.min.js

79 ms

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75 ms

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76 ms

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110 ms

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111 ms

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260 ms

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idcta-1.js

110 ms

liveTab.js

liveTab.js

88 ms

avPlayback.js

avPlayback.js

102 ms

bindRelLightbox.js

bindRelLightbox.js

98 ms

homepageStatsTarousel.js

homepageStatsTarousel.js

102 ms

progsPageType.js

progsPageType.js

101 ms

musicfavourite.js

musicfavourite.js

102 ms

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102 ms

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embed.js

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lightbox.js

59 ms

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favourite.js

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Accessibility Review

bbcworldservice.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

bbcworldservice.com best practices score

83

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bbcworldservice.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

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

bbcworldservice.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BBC World Service. 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: