Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

balisage.net

Balisage: The Markup Conference

Page Load Speed

920 ms in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

411 ms

Page Rendered

309 ms

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About Website

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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 200 ms and then it took 720 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)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balisage.net

200 ms

balisage2.css

46 ms

oxygen190x62.png

57 ms

Balisage-logotype-2016.png

116 ms

AH_Logo.jpg

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Balisage.net, 6% (1 request) were made to Oxygenxml.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (200 ms) belongs to the original domain Balisage.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

194.2 kB

After Optimization

155.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Balisage.net main page is 194.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 171.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 12.3 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 1.6 kB, 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 9.7 kB or 70% 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

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balisage. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

balisage.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

balisage.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

balisage.net SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

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 it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Balisage.net main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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: