Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

bssm.org

BSSM - World leaders in stress and strain analysis and experimental mechanics

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

893 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bssm.org homepage info - get ready to check BSSM best content right away, or after learning these important things about bssm.org

The BSSM (British Society for Strain Measurement) sits at the interface between industry, academia and the wider engineering community and promotes new ideas and best practice in the field of engineer...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bssm.org page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bssm.org performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,650 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.349

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bssm.org

241 ms

bssm.org

317 ms

www.bssm.org

426 ms

all.min.css

48 ms

sitebuilder-ltr-css-bundle.css.v1

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Bssm.org, 10% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) belongs to the original domain Bssm.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Bssm.org main page is 2.6 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 89.3 kB

  • Original 100.6 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 31.3 kB, which is 31% 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 89.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 56.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. BSSM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 306.3 kB
  • After minification 306.3 kB
  • After compression 304.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 57.3 kB

  • Original 199.6 kB
  • After minification 199.6 kB
  • After compression 142.3 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. Bssm.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 57.3 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (38%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BSSM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bssm.org accessibility score

89

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

bssm.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bssm.org SEO score

77

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bssm.org 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 Bssm.org 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 BSSM. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: