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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

blg.com

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) — Lawyers | Patent & Trademark Agents | BLG

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blg.com page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blg.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,070 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blg.com

126 ms

www.blg.com

260 ms

en

562 ms

corev15.css

256 ms

ec9d49ac-f456-49dd-9bcf-9db6cd4c3811.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Blg.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (562 ms) belongs to the original domain Blg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (62%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

943.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blg.com main page is 2.5 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 109.2 kB

  • Original 128.2 kB
  • After minification 112.5 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.7 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 109.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 594.3 kB
  • After minification 546.2 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. BLG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 839.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 313.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 839.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 514.9 kB

  • Original 580.3 kB
  • After minification 456.4 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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. Blg.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 514.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (58%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BLG. 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 from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blg.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

blg.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blg.com 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

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 Blg.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 Blg.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 BLG. 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: