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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

bdmag.com

BDMag - New U.S. home builder News: Resources for Professional Homebuilders Nationwide

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

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About Website

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New U.S. home builder & homebuilder publication. Covers: housing, green homebuilder, new single & multifamily communities & home builder news nationwide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bdmag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bdmag.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bdmag.com

198 ms

www.bdmag.com

432 ms

cf7ic-style.css

84 ms

style.min.css

164 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

233 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Bdmag.com, 8% (11 requests) were made to 1pma.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Bdmag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

17.1 MB

After Optimization

16.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bdmag.com main page is 17.1 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 16.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 218.7 kB

  • Original 248.0 kB
  • After minification 241.3 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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. 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 218.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 16.7 MB
  • After minification 16.6 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. BDMag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 105.1 kB
  • After minification 104.0 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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 28.1 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 100.7 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 76.9 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. Bdmag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.8 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (38%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

75

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BDMag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bdmag.com

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198 ms

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432 ms

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Accessibility Review

bdmag.com accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

bdmag.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bdmag.com SEO score

85

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

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 Bdmag.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 Bdmag.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of BDMag. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: