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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

go2birmingham.co.uk

Birmingham Portal

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

980 ms

Page Rendered

193 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Go2birmingham.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

go2birmingham.co.uk performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

go2birmingham.co.uk

240 ms

main.css

106 ms

widgets.js

7 ms

plusone.js

74 ms

ga.js

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Go2birmingham.co.uk, 21% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 14% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) relates to the external source Developers.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

270.7 kB

After Optimization

245.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Go2birmingham.co.uk main page is 270.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 168.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 26.3 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 18.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 73.5 kB
  • After minification 68.1 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. Go2 Birmingham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 410 B

  • Original 168.5 kB
  • After minification 168.5 kB
  • After compression 168.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 817 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. Go2birmingham.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go2 Birmingham. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

go2birmingham.co.uk

go2birmingham.co.uk

240 ms

main.css

main.css

106 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

7 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

74 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

120 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

82 ms

white_bubbles.jpg

white_bubbles.jpg

252 ms

birmingham.gif

birmingham.gif

408 ms

bvb.png

bvb.png

171 ms

bottom.jpg

bottom.jpg

175 ms

pink_bubbles.jpg

pink_bubbles.jpg

250 ms

tracking.js

tracking.js

77 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

21 ms

all.js

all.js

64 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

21 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

55 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

50 ms

settings

settings

165 ms

all.js

all.js

14 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

80 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

444 ms

2254111616-postmessagerelay.js

2254111616-postmessagerelay.js

22 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

8 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

5 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

2 ms

embeds

embeds

47 ms

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

10 ms

Accessibility Review

go2birmingham.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

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

Best Practices

go2birmingham.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

go2birmingham.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Go2birmingham.co.uk 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 Go2birmingham.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

go2birmingham.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Go2 Birmingham. 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: