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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

bluefireconsulting.co.uk

Recruitment Agency, UK Jobs - Specialist Employment Agencies Bluefire

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluefireconsulting.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 2.2 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

bluefireconsulting.co.uk performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluefireconsulting.co.uk

302 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

jquery.min.js

21 ms

swfobject.js

203 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

389 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Bluefireconsulting.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bluefireconsulting.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

260.4 kB

After Optimization

236.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bluefireconsulting.co.uk main page is 260.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 166.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 16.7 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.6 kB, which is 13% 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 14.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 166.8 kB
  • After minification 164.2 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. Bluefire Consulting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 65.9 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 578 B

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Bluefireconsulting.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 578 B or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (9%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

48

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bluefire Consulting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bluefireconsulting.co.uk

bluefireconsulting.co.uk

302 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

7 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

203 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

389 ms

main.css

main.css

381 ms

1037.js

1037.js

204 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

31 ms

1037.js

1037.js

26 ms

image_index_NewVivaldiFont.png

image_index_NewVivaldiFont.png

363 ms

102.png

102.png

266 ms

eye_ani_small.gif

eye_ani_small.gif

190 ms

bluefire.gif

bluefire.gif

186 ms

execTopLink.png

execTopLink.png

187 ms

logo_rec.gif

logo_rec.gif

185 ms

awards.gif

awards.gif

210 ms

iso.gif

iso.gif

224 ms

virginMedia.jpg

virginMedia.jpg

192 ms

thomasCook.jpg

thomasCook.jpg

217 ms

wagamama.jpg

wagamama.jpg

354 ms

maersk.jpg

maersk.jpg

367 ms

tate.jpg

tate.jpg

389 ms

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nespresso.jpg

444 ms

cbs.jpg

cbs.jpg

394 ms

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Amey.jpg

530 ms

cifa.jpg

cifa.jpg

543 ms

deutz.jpg

deutz.jpg

541 ms

gazprom.jpg

gazprom.jpg

637 ms

hochtief.jpg

hochtief.jpg

577 ms

mitie.jpg

mitie.jpg

654 ms

mouchel.jpg

mouchel.jpg

709 ms

serco.jpg

serco.jpg

703 ms

smiffys.jpg

smiffys.jpg

727 ms

vtGroup.jpg

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775 ms

wsp.jpg

wsp.jpg

809 ms

nhs.jpg

nhs.jpg

863 ms

talktalk.jpg

talktalk.jpg

896 ms

hssHire.jpg

hssHire.jpg

902 ms

redCross.jpg

redCross.jpg

944 ms

chubb.jpg

chubb.jpg

953 ms

atkins.jpg

atkins.jpg

1041 ms

charity.jpg

charity.jpg

1073 ms

emr.jpg

emr.jpg

1063 ms

friendsProvident.jpg

friendsProvident.jpg

1091 ms

johnLaing.jpg

johnLaing.jpg

1130 ms

kumon.jpg

kumon.jpg

1123 ms

pearson.jpg

pearson.jpg

1217 ms

pilkington.jpg

pilkington.jpg

1253 ms

synexus.jpg

synexus.jpg

1275 ms

menuBack.jpg

menuBack.jpg

233 ms

n4.g

n4.g

43 ms

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__utm.gif

36 ms

thus.jpg

thus.jpg

1094 ms

londonClinic.jpg

londonClinic.jpg

1155 ms

drager.jpg

drager.jpg

1117 ms

Accessibility Review

bluefireconsulting.co.uk accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

bluefireconsulting.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bluefireconsulting.co.uk SEO score

69

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

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 Bluefireconsulting.co.uk 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 Bluefireconsulting.co.uk 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

bluefireconsulting.co.uk

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