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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

backgroundhost.com

BackgroundHost | A Free CDN of Repeatable Background Patterns

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

441 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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This site is a CDN of different repeatable background patterns from sources like Subtle Patterns. Free, simple and fast.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Backgroundhost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

backgroundhost.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

backgroundhost.com

36 ms

css

21 ms

style.min.css

10 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

8 ms

jquery.sonar.min.js

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Backgroundhost.com, 64% (30 requests) were made to Cdn.backgroundhost.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (202 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.backgroundhost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

896.1 kB

After Optimization

806.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Backgroundhost.com main page is 896.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 778.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 95.7 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 87.4 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 778.7 kB
  • After minification 776.8 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. Background Host images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (40%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Background Host. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

backgroundhost.com accessibility score

71

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

backgroundhost.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

backgroundhost.com SEO score

100

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Backgroundhost.com 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 Backgroundhost.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 description is not detected on the main page of Background Host. 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: