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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

barcampboston.org

Barcamp Boston - Boston's tech geek unconference.

Page Load Speed

518 ms in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

374 ms

Page Rendered

83 ms

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About Website

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Boston's geek unconference. Sessions organized on-the-day by the attendees. Tech, development, art, science, social, startups -- geeks of all kinds welcome.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barcampboston.org page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 457 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barcampboston.org performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barcampboston.org

61 ms

barcampboston.org

259 ms

logo-imh.svg

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Barcampboston.org, 33% (1 request) were made to Design.inmotionhosting.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (259 ms) belongs to the original domain Barcampboston.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

220.8 kB

After Optimization

204.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barcampboston.org main page is 220.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 106.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 249 B

  • Original 568 B
  • After minification 563 B
  • After compression 319 B

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 249 B or 44% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 106.3 kB
  • After minification 90.2 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, Barcamp Boston needs image optimization as it can save up to 16.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 13.4 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 188 B

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 100.4 kB
  • After compression 100.3 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. Barcampboston.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • Images

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barcamp Boston. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

barcampboston.org

barcampboston.org

61 ms

barcampboston.org

barcampboston.org

259 ms

logo-imh.svg

logo-imh.svg

32 ms

Accessibility Review

barcampboston.org accessibility score

57

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

barcampboston.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

barcampboston.org SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Barcampboston.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Barcampboston.org 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

barcampboston.org

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