Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

bostonfirebox.com

Fire Operations | Boston.gov

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

538 ms

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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We are an organization of dedicated professionals who are committed to serving the community by protecting life, property, and the environment through prevention, education, emergency medical, civil d...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostonfirebox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 116 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostonfirebox.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostonfirebox.com

116 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

50 ms

style.min.css

63 ms

classic-themes.min.css

51 ms

d0cc884d635c67681c9ec6871eeebf37.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Bostonfirebox.com, 3% (1 request) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) belongs to the original domain Bostonfirebox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 614.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Bostonfirebox.com main page is 2.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 209.6 kB

  • Original 227.7 kB
  • After minification 180.6 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 47.0 kB, which is 21% 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 209.6 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 400.7 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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, Boston Fire Box needs image optimization as it can save up to 400.7 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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. Bostonfirebox.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (15%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Fire Box. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bostonfirebox.com 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

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

bostonfirebox.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bostonfirebox.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Bostonfirebox.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 Bostonfirebox.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 data is detected on the main page of Boston Fire Box. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: