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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

backgroundsource.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Backgroundsource.com page load time and found that the first response time was 280 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

backgroundsource.com performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

280 ms

style.css

195 ms

topmenu.js

195 ms

footer.js

198 ms

header.jpg

458 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Backgroundsource.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (458 ms) belongs to the original domain Backgroundsource.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

228.4 kB

After Optimization

223.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Backgroundsource.com main page is 228.4 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 199.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 4.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 682 B

  • Original 199.1 kB
  • After minification 198.4 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. Backgroundsource images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 161 B

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 91 B

  • Original 666 B
  • After minification 666 B
  • After compression 575 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. Backgroundsource.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (61%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Backgroundsource. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

backgroundsource.com accessibility score

55

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

backgroundsource.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

backgroundsource.com SEO score

67

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

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 Backgroundsource.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 Backgroundsource.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 Backgroundsource. 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: