Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 55

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

ex-bbc.net

Noticeboard for former BBC staff

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

375 ms

Resources Loaded

697 ms

Page Rendered

128 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ex-bbc.net page load time and found that the first response time was 375 ms and then it took 825 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ex-bbc.net performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ex-bbc.net

375 ms

style.css

187 ms

show_ads.js

6 ms

ca-pub-3740085596638366.js

166 ms

zrt_lookup.html

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ex-bbc.net, 44% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 33% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (375 ms) belongs to the original domain Ex-bbc.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.5 kB (27%)

Content Size

23.9 kB

After Optimization

17.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Ex-bbc.net main page is 23.9 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. Javascripts take 14.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 5.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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

-76%

Potential reduce by 729 B

  • Original 954 B
  • After minification 855 B
  • After compression 225 B

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. Ex-bbc.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 729 B or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (50%)

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ex BBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ex-bbc.net accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

ex-bbc.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

SEO Factors

ex-bbc.net SEO score

55

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ex-bbc.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ex-bbc.net main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Ex BBC. 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: