Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

evisa.gov.bh

Bahrain Electronic Visa Service

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

evisa.gov.bh screenshot

About Website

Welcome to evisa.gov.bh homepage info - get ready to check E Visa Gov best content for Saudi Arabia right away, or after learning these important things about evisa.gov.bh

This site allows you to apply for short term and long term visas for travel to the Kingdom of Bahrain. It also gives an overview of application process and requirements.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Evisa.gov.bh page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

evisa.gov.bh performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.569

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

evisa.gov.bh

1603 ms

ETALanguageEn.js

442 ms

hosts.js

408 ms

VisaNavigation.js

422 ms

ETASwapper.js

409 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Evisa.gov.bh, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Evisa.gov.bh.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

227.8 kB

After Optimization

194.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Evisa.gov.bh main page is 227.8 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. Images take 181.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 5.8 kB, which is 27% 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 17.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 181.5 kB
  • After minification 171.8 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. E Visa Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 524 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. Evisa.gov.bh needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (34%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of E Visa Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

evisa.gov.bh accessibility score

76

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

Best Practices

evisa.gov.bh best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

evisa.gov.bh SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Evisa.gov.bh 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 Evisa.gov.bh main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 E Visa Gov. 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: