Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

bpindex.co.uk

Building Products Index - The top UK resource for Architectural and Building Specifiers

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

155 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bpindex.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bpindex.co.uk performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,210 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.305

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bpindex.co.uk

247 ms

www.bpindex.co.uk

535 ms

style.css

222 ms

skin.css

228 ms

colorbox.css

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 188 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Bpindex.co.uk, 33% (62 requests) were made to Clark-drain.com and 13% (25 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Clark-drain.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 505.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Bpindex.co.uk main page is 4.4 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 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 25.8 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 2.9 kB, which is 11% 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 19.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 223.7 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Bp Index images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 165.1 kB

  • Original 543.3 kB
  • After minification 532.6 kB
  • After compression 378.2 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 165.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 96.7 kB

  • Original 153.4 kB
  • After minification 137.0 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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. Bpindex.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (34%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

101

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bp Index. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bpindex.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

bpindex.co.uk best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

bpindex.co.uk SEO score

88

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

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 Bpindex.co.uk 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 Bpindex.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bp Index. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: