Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

german.bcg.ch

Strategic Management Consulting | Boston Consulting Group

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

650 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed German.bcg.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

german.bcg.ch performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value36,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value49.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

german.bcg.ch

8 ms

www.bcg.com

20 ms

homepage2_0.min.58f0ea007ac66cf4f1669d348f569dbe.gz.css

192 ms

All.min.e74c08538b5514f495742709d4cbaff5.gz.css

172 ms

All.min.f2b9d61bae4545907aa345f76c3d689d.gz.js

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original German.bcg.ch, 62% (60 requests) were made to Web-assets.bcg.com and 12% (12 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) relates to the external source Web-assets.bcg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 483.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

540.2 kB

In fact, the total size of German.bcg.ch main page is 1.0 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 370.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 216.3 kB

  • Original 256.7 kB
  • After minification 213.4 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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 43.3 kB, which is 17% 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 216.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 665 B

  • Original 370.9 kB
  • After minification 370.3 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. German Bcg images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 33.8 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 11.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 255.0 kB

  • Original 350.6 kB
  • After minification 350.4 kB
  • After compression 95.6 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. German.bcg.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 255.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (87%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of German Bcg. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

german.bcg.ch accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

german.bcg.ch 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

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

german.bcg.ch SEO score

83

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

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 German.bcg.ch 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 German.bcg.ch 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 description is not detected on the main page of German Bcg. 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: