Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

kirbybates.com

Kirby Bates Associates | Healthcare Executive Search

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

301 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

669 ms

About Website

Welcome to kirbybates.com homepage info - get ready to check Kirby Bates best content right away, or after learning these important things about kirbybates.com

For more than 30 years, KBA executive search consultants have collaborated strategically to match hospitals with high-performing healthcare executive leaders.

Visit kirbybates.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Kirbybates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 301 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kirbybates.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,250 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.55

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kirbybates.com

301 ms

kirbybates.com

114 ms

optimize.js

67 ms

style.min.css

88 ms

search-filter.min.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Kirbybates.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) relates to the external source Api.herefish.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 383.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

806.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kirbybates.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 562.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 44.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 546.0 kB
  • After minification 538.7 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. Kirby Bates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 331.9 kB

  • Original 562.6 kB
  • After minification 562.6 kB
  • After compression 230.7 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 331.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Kirbybates.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (56%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kirby Bates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

kirbybates.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

kirbybates.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

kirbybates.com SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Kirbybates.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 Kirbybates.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 Kirby Bates. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: