Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

baaudiology.org

Homepage - British Academy of Audiology |British Academy of Audiology

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

265 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

447 ms

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About Website

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The Official British Academy of Audiology website, representing the audiology profession in the UK, including membership, news and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baaudiology.org page load time and found that the first response time was 265 ms and then it took 4.6 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

baaudiology.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

baaudiology.org

265 ms

www.baaudiology.org

1288 ms

webfont.js

27 ms

gtm.js

66 ms

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Baaudiology.org, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Baaudiology.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (46%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Baaudiology.org main page is 2.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 59.1 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.0 kB, which is 20% 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 47.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Ba Audiology needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 49% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 141.2 kB
  • After minification 141.2 kB
  • After compression 139.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 82.5 kB
  • After minification 82.5 kB
  • After compression 76.7 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. Baaudiology.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (60%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ba Audiology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

baaudiology.org accessibility score

86

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

baaudiology.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

baaudiology.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Baaudiology.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 Baaudiology.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 Ba Audiology. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: