Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bmscientific.co.za

Quality Laboratory Consumables, Equipment, and Chemicals Supplier - B&M Scientific

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

638 ms

bmscientific.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bmscientific.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Bm Scientific best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about bmscientific.co.za

We supply lab consumables such as Glassware, Plasticware, PPE, and Chemicals. We can supply you with medical and Laboratory tools or equipment. BBBEE & ISO

Visit bmscientific.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Bmscientific.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 5.9 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

bmscientific.co.za performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bmscientific.co.za

2037 ms

global.css

932 ms

autoptimize_single_b7bb197c2dd18ac745e10eb5eeb6870f.css

940 ms

joinchat.min.css

973 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

960 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Bmscientific.co.za, 22% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Bmscientific.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (21%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Bmscientific.co.za main page is 7.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 119.8 kB
  • After minification 119.7 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 99.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 7.1 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Obviously, Bm Scientific needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 89.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 89.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 718 B

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Bmscientific.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bm Scientific. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bmscientific.co.za accessibility score

93

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bmscientific.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bmscientific.co.za SEO score

93

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 Bmscientific.co.za 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 Bmscientific.co.za 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 Bm Scientific. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: