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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ble.org

Home | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ble.org page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ble.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,340 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ble.org

91 ms

ble-t.org

1767 ms

font-awesome.min.css

265 ms

jquery.min.js

143 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ble.org, 63% (100 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 32% (51 requests) were made to Ble-t.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Ble-t.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 699.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ble.org main page is 6.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 517.5 kB

  • Original 578.0 kB
  • After minification 572.9 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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 517.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 179.2 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Ble images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 74.3 kB
  • After compression 72.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 231 B

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. Ble.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (45%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ble. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ble.org accessibility score

77

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

ble.org 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

ble.org SEO score

89

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

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