Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

bostongrp.com

BOSTON GROUP - Australian Building and Construction Consultants and Advice

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

516 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

142 ms

About Website

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Boston Group is an organisation primarily dedicated to consumer, corporate and business activities within the construction industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostongrp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 516 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostongrp.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostongrp.com

516 ms

www.bostongrp.com.au

1034 ms

bostongroup.css

210 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

420 ms

colorbox.css

628 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bostongrp.com, 53% (23 requests) were made to Bostongrp.com.au and 16% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Bostongrp.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 305.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

895.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Bostongrp.com main page is 1.2 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. 80% 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 653.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 10.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 254.8 kB

  • Original 653.5 kB
  • After minification 398.7 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. Obviously, BOSTON Grp needs image optimization as it can save up to 254.8 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 461.6 kB
  • After minification 461.6 kB
  • After compression 424.3 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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. Bostongrp.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (48%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BOSTON Grp. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bostongrp.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

bostongrp.com best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bostongrp.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Bostongrp.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 Bostongrp.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 BOSTON Grp. 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: