Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

bcg.nl

BCG in the Netherlands | Business Consulting Firm | BCG

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcg.nl page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 1.7 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

bcg.nl performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,290 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.263

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bcg.nl

79 ms

www.bcg.nl

44 ms

amsterdam.aspx

106 ms

global.min.css

35 ms

header.min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Bcg.nl, 44% (24 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 28% (15 requests) were made to Boston-consulting-group-res.cloudinary.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (927 ms) relates to the external source Boston-consulting-group-res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 673.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

604.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Bcg.nl main page is 1.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 491.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 95.2 kB
  • After minification 84.6 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 10.6 kB, which is 11% 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 83.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 55 B

  • Original 396.8 kB
  • After minification 396.8 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. BCG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 338.9 kB

  • Original 491.6 kB
  • After minification 491.6 kB
  • After compression 152.6 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 338.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 251.0 kB

  • Original 294.2 kB
  • After minification 293.3 kB
  • After compression 43.2 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. Bcg.nl needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 251.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (18%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BCG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bcg.nl accessibility score

92

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

bcg.nl best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bcg.nl SEO score

83

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bcg.nl 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 Bcg.nl 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 BCG. 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: