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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

bacb.co.uk

Your Trade Finance Banking Partner for Specialist Markets | BACB

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

497 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bacb.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bacb.co.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bacb.co.uk

252 ms

www.bacb.co.uk

842 ms

bootstrap.min.css

180 ms

styles.css

254 ms

jquery.min.js

354 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Bacb.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Hello.myfonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Bacb.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 470.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bacb.co.uk main page is 5.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 6.3 kB, which is 34% 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 15.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 235.2 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. BACB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 92.1 kB

  • Original 158.6 kB
  • After minification 157.0 kB
  • After compression 66.4 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 92.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 127.7 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 141.2 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Bacb.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 127.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (20%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BACB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bacb.co.uk

bacb.co.uk

252 ms

www.bacb.co.uk

www.bacb.co.uk

842 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

180 ms

styles.css

styles.css

254 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

354 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

270 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

jquery.backstretch.min.js

280 ms

site.js

site.js

278 ms

bacb-logo.png

bacb-logo.png

281 ms

2d47c3

2d47c3

138 ms

shutterstock_117494869-3.jpg

shutterstock_117494869-3.jpg

749 ms

hero-overlay.png

hero-overlay.png

364 ms

down-arrow.png

down-arrow.png

97 ms

diamond-icon.png

diamond-icon.png

88 ms

about-bg.png

about-bg.png

366 ms

large-diamond-icon.png

large-diamond-icon.png

84 ms

footer-test.png

footer-test.png

285 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

65 ms

dreamstime_xxl_6070394-1.jpg

dreamstime_xxl_6070394-1.jpg

1269 ms

dreamstime_xxl_24004931-1.jpg

dreamstime_xxl_24004931-1.jpg

1654 ms

shutterstock_117494869-3.jpg

shutterstock_117494869-3.jpg

1437 ms

2D47C3_1_0.woff

2D47C3_1_0.woff

837 ms

2D47C3_3_0.woff

2D47C3_3_0.woff

751 ms

2D47C3_0_0.woff

2D47C3_0_0.woff

765 ms

2D47C3_2_0.woff

2D47C3_2_0.woff

1114 ms

collect

collect

19 ms

Accessibility Review

bacb.co.uk accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bacb.co.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bacb.co.uk SEO score

84

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bacb.co.uk 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 Bacb.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

bacb.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BACB. 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: