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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

bcs.org

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT | BCS

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

860 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcs.org page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 2.2 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

bcs.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bcs.org

76 ms

www.bcs.org

87 ms

bootstrap.min.css

41 ms

style.css

36 ms

styles.min.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Bcs.org, 2% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (520 ms) relates to the external source Static.virtualbadge.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 140.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcs.org main page is 2.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 87.2 kB
  • After minification 51.5 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 35.7 kB, which is 41% 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 75.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. BCS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 228.8 kB
  • After minification 228.8 kB
  • After compression 196.8 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 32.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 100.8 kB
  • After minification 100.8 kB
  • After compression 67.5 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. Bcs.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (36%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BCS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bcs.org

bcs.org

76 ms

www.bcs.org

www.bcs.org

87 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

41 ms

style.css

style.css

36 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

48 ms

jquery-2.2.4.js

jquery-2.2.4.js

33 ms

html5shiv.min.js

html5shiv.min.js

92 ms

jquery.selectbox.min.js

jquery.selectbox.min.js

93 ms

clipboard.min.js

clipboard.min.js

93 ms

plyr.polyfilled.min.js

plyr.polyfilled.min.js

96 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

46 ms

optimize.js

optimize.js

95 ms

vb-certificate-v1.js

vb-certificate-v1.js

520 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

140 ms

ofi.min.js

ofi.min.js

139 ms

global.js

global.js

140 ms

fffix.js

fffix.js

139 ms

site.js

site.js

240 ms

animatein.js

animatein.js

139 ms

home.js

home.js

217 ms

black-logo-main.png

black-logo-main.png

109 ms

white-logo-main.png

white-logo-main.png

134 ms

arrow-thin-midGreen.svg

arrow-thin-midGreen.svg

134 ms

navigation-membership-member.png

navigation-membership-member.png

107 ms

navigation-membership-citp.png

navigation-membership-citp.png

109 ms

young-careers.png

young-careers.png

155 ms

navigation-qualifications-swt.png

navigation-qualifications-swt.png

167 ms

navigation-qualifications-skills.png

navigation-qualifications-skills.png

119 ms

navigation-events-calendar.png

navigation-events-calendar.png

201 ms

navigation-articles-people.png

navigation-articles-people.png

148 ms

woman-office-chart.jpg

woman-office-chart.jpg

185 ms

Dots_Meet%20our%20members.svg

Dots_Meet%20our%20members.svg

256 ms

homepage-cameron.jpg

homepage-cameron.jpg

317 ms

homepage-kristel.jpg

homepage-kristel.jpg

284 ms

homepage-paul.jpg

homepage-paul.jpg

198 ms

homepage-soheir.jpg

homepage-soheir.jpg

313 ms

lord-mayor-michael-mainelli.jpg

lord-mayor-michael-mainelli.jpg

314 ms

Dots_Something%20For...Top.svg

Dots_Something%20For...Top.svg

317 ms

Dots_Something%20for..%20Bottom.svg

Dots_Something%20for..%20Bottom.svg

376 ms

diversity-homepage.jpg

diversity-homepage.jpg

388 ms

dots-feature-repeat.svg

dots-feature-repeat.svg

467 ms

net-zero.jpg

net-zero.jpg

481 ms

crest.png

crest.png

346 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

445 ms

x-logo-black.png

x-logo-black.png

384 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

510 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

423 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

412 ms

DINNextLTPro-Bold.woff

DINNextLTPro-Bold.woff

368 ms

DINNextLTPro-Medium.woff

DINNextLTPro-Medium.woff

388 ms

DINNextLTPro-Regular.woff

DINNextLTPro-Regular.woff

423 ms

DINNextLTPro-Light.woff

DINNextLTPro-Light.woff

404 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

423 ms

print.css

print.css

36 ms

Accessibility Review

bcs.org accessibility score

96

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bcs.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

bcs.org SEO score

92

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

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 Bcs.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 Bcs.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

bcs.org

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