Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 47

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

bamsl.org

The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) | Building Better Lawyers

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

364 ms

About Website

Welcome to bamsl.org homepage info - get ready to check BAMSL best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about bamsl.org

The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL), founded in 1874, is a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, the members of which are principally attorneys practicing in the St. Louis metropolita...

Visit bamsl.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Bamsl.org page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bamsl.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.421

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bamsl.org

34 ms

bamsl.org

239 ms

www.bamsl.org

50 ms

www.bamsl.org

964 ms

colorbox-1.4.19.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Bamsl.org, 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Sealserver.trustwave.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (995 ms) belongs to the original domain Bamsl.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bamsl.org main page is 3.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 113.8 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 143.5 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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 113.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB

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. BAMSL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 219.2 kB
  • After minification 219.2 kB
  • After compression 218.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 803 B

  • Original 163.8 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 163.0 kB

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. Bamsl.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (70%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BAMSL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bamsl.org accessibility score

47

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bamsl.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bamsl.org SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Bamsl.org 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 Bamsl.org 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 BAMSL. 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: