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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk

Hosted By Bedford Borough Council: Bedfordshire Archives

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk homepage info - get ready to check Beds Archives Bedford best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk

Since 1996 Bedfordshire Archives has been funded by a joint arrangement between the three unitary authorities of Bedfordshire

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Archives-Service.aspx

276 ms

gtm.js

62 ms

100-System.css

274 ms

200-boroughSystem.css

276 ms

300-borougharchivesandrecords.css

278 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk, 8% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (455 ms) belongs to the original domain Bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

118.7 kB

After Optimization

101.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk main page is 118.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 88.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 11.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 88.8 kB
  • After minification 85.9 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. Beds Archives Bedford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 686 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 686 B or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (25%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beds Archives Bedford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Archives-Service.aspx

Archives-Service.aspx

276 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

62 ms

100-System.css

100-System.css

274 ms

200-boroughSystem.css

200-boroughSystem.css

276 ms

300-borougharchivesandrecords.css

300-borougharchivesandrecords.css

278 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

277 ms

Archive.jpg

Archive.jpg

455 ms

CBC_BBC_LBC_Logos3.jpg

CBC_BBC_LBC_Logos3.jpg

274 ms

Catalogues-Search-Button200x53.png

Catalogues-Search-Button200x53.png

276 ms

Visit-Us-Button200x53.png

Visit-Us-Button200x53.png

277 ms

Social-Media-Logos150x49.png

Social-Media-Logos150x49.png

278 ms

relateditems_tab_top.gif

relateditems_tab_top.gif

277 ms

print.css

print.css

273 ms

Accessibility Review

bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk accessibility score

87

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk SEO score

67

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

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 Bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk 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 Bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk 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

bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Beds Archives Bedford. 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: