Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

bic.co.uk

Bournemouth International Centre | Welcome to Bournemouth International Centre

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

bic.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bic.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Bic best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about bic.co.uk

Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) is south coast home to popular music, comedy and live entertainment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bic.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bic.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,550 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bic.co.uk

255 ms

www.bic.co.uk

754 ms

main.css

266 ms

inbox.css

161 ms

jquery-ui.css

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Bic.co.uk, 18% (11 requests) were made to Cdn.bhlive.co.uk and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (754 ms) belongs to the original domain Bic.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

743.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Bic.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 626.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 17.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 626.4 kB
  • After minification 611.9 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. Bic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 200.9 kB

  • Original 290.1 kB
  • After minification 270.1 kB
  • After compression 89.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 200.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 225.9 kB

  • Original 261.4 kB
  • After minification 201.3 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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. Bic.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 225.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (49%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bic.co.uk accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bic.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bic.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Bic.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 Bic.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 description is not detected on the main page of Bic. 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: