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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

bandq.com

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Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

580 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

567 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bandq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 580 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bandq.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value45.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value127,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value174.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.diy.com

580 ms

ruxitagentjs_A27NVfghjqrtux_10267230522124059.js

35 ms

hash-54f3913cc4bf1b353ec7.css

107 ms

1.hash-2fd7b2d57cce9c355048.css

244 ms

5.hash-6bdda87743d011de63d4.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Bandq.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Edge1.certona.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Consent.truste.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Diy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 624.2 kB (77%)

Content Size

806.4 kB

After Optimization

182.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Bandq.com main page is 806.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 747.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 618.0 kB

  • Original 747.4 kB
  • After minification 747.4 kB
  • After compression 129.4 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 618.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 58.9 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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 36 (78%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bandq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bandq.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

bandq.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bandq.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bandq.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Bandq.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 Bandq. 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: