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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

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Balisage: The Markup Conference

Page Load Speed

656 ms in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

437 ms

Page Rendered

63 ms

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A technical conference about XML and other markup. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balisage.net page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 500 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balisage.net performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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156 ms

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270 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Balisage.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (270 ms) belongs to the original domain Balisage.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

180.8 kB

After Optimization

151.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balisage.net main page is 180.8 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 171.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 252 B

  • Original 590 B
  • After minification 517 B
  • After compression 338 B

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 73 B, which is 12% 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 252 B or 43% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 171.3 kB
  • After minification 150.0 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. Obviously, Balisage needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Balisage.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

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156 ms

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270 ms

Accessibility Review

balisage.net accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

balisage.net 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

SEO Factors

balisage.net SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Balisage.net 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 Balisage.net 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

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