Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

barr.com

Barr - Integrated Environmental Consulting & Engineering Firm

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

786 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Barr content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about barr.com

Barr is an engineering and environmental consulting firm, bringing services to clients across North America and around the world for over a century.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barr.com page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barr.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barr.com

145 ms

www.barr.com

342 ms

bootstrap.min.css

94 ms

font-awesome.min.css

127 ms

slick.min.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Barr.com, 17% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Dnnapi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (535 ms) belongs to the original domain Barr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (11%)

Content Size

8.9 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Barr.com main page is 8.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 78.0 kB

  • Original 90.9 kB
  • After minification 71.5 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 19.4 kB, which is 21% 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 78.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 749.8 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 7.5 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. Barr images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 143.4 kB

  • Original 396.1 kB
  • After minification 396.1 kB
  • After compression 252.7 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 143.4 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 109.7 kB
  • After minification 109.7 kB
  • After compression 73.0 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. Barr.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.7 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (45%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barr. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

barr.com accessibility score

90

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.

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

barr.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

barr.com SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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

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 Barr.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 Barr.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 Barr. 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: