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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

brigham.com

CT Brigham | Pittsfield, MA | Janitorial Supplies | Paper Products | Office Products

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

896 ms

Page Rendered

195 ms

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CT Brigham is located in Pittsfield MA and we offer paper products, cleaning supplies and janitorial products in Western MA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brigham.com page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brigham.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.413

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brigham.com

79 ms

www.brigham.com

80 ms

catalog

14 ms

243 ms

bootstrap.min.css

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Brigham.com, 21% (14 requests) were made to Images.jmcatalog.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (367 ms) belongs to the original domain Brigham.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 627.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brigham.com main page is 6.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 229.5 kB

  • Original 272.8 kB
  • After minification 176.3 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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 96.5 kB, which is 35% 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 229.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 202.5 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.5 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. Brigham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 258.8 kB
  • After minification 258.8 kB
  • After compression 221.5 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 37.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 158.1 kB

  • Original 290.1 kB
  • After minification 284.0 kB
  • After compression 132.0 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. Brigham.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 158.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (53%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brigham. 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 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

brigham.com accessibility score

87

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

brigham.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

brigham.com SEO score

80

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 Brigham.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 Brigham.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 Brigham. 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: