Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

beamreach.org

Beam Reach | Marine Science and Sustainability School

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

beamreach.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to beamreach.org homepage info - get ready to check Beam Reach best content right away, or after learning these important things about beamreach.org

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beamreach.org page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beamreach.org performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.beamreach.org

105 ms

style.css

6 ms

jquery-1.3.1.min.js

13 ms

jquery-backpos.js

10 ms

bursts.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Beamreach.org, 5% (3 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Test.beamreach.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (131 ms) relates to the external source Test.beamreach.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

867.5 kB

After Optimization

811.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Beamreach.org main page is 867.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 666.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 3.2 kB, which is 13% 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 18.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 666.7 kB
  • After minification 634.1 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. Beam Reach images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 162.6 kB
  • After minification 162.6 kB
  • After compression 159.5 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. Beamreach.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (57%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beam Reach. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

beamreach.org accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

beamreach.org best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

beamreach.org SEO score

54

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Beamreach.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 Beamreach.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

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