Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

blcost.com

Kuwait First Website Selling at True Cost|بلكوست blcost.com

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

692 ms

blcost.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blcost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blcost.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blcost.com

226 ms

www.blcost.com

3116 ms

en.jpg

383 ms

Asset_5.png

471 ms

css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Blcost.com, 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Blcost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (84%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

311.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Blcost.com main page is 2.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 223.6 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 1.7 MB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 88.4 kB
  • After minification 88.4 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. Bl Cost images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bl Cost. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

blcost.com accessibility score

82

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

blcost.com SEO score

82

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 Blcost.com 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 Blcost.com 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 Bl Cost. 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: