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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

bedfordgroup.com

Strategic Executive Services and Talent Management Solutions | The Bedford Group TRANSEARCH

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

463 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bedfordgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bedfordgroup.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.432

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bedfordgroup.com

81 ms

bedfordgroup.com

794 ms

jquery.min.js

90 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

49 ms

gtm.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Bedfordgroup.com, 23% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (794 ms) belongs to the original domain Bedfordgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 662.8 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

450.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bedfordgroup.com main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 608.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 233.6 kB

  • Original 270.2 kB
  • After minification 265.6 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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 233.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 215.9 kB
  • After minification 214.4 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. Bedford Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 413.4 kB

  • Original 608.0 kB
  • After minification 602.2 kB
  • After compression 194.6 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 413.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 19.3 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Bedfordgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (50%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bedford Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bedfordgroup.com accessibility score

69

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

bedfordgroup.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

SEO Factors

bedfordgroup.com SEO score

84

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

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 Bedfordgroup.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 Bedfordgroup.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 data is detected on the main page of Bedford Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: