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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bellwetherevents.com

Bellwether Events | Colorful Wedding Planning & Design in DC

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

313 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

848 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bellwetherevents.com homepage info - get ready to check Bellwether Events best content right away, or after learning these important things about bellwetherevents.com

Planning, designing & executing colorful, distinctive Washington D.C. area weddings & events since 2006. We specialize in logistics and home weddings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bellwetherevents.com page load time and found that the first response time was 313 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bellwetherevents.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,340 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bellwetherevents.com

313 ms

js

17 ms

style.min.css

272 ms

styles.css

239 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

197 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Bellwetherevents.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Bellwetherevents.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 178.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bellwetherevents.com main page is 3.6 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 122.0 kB
  • After minification 119.4 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 98.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Bellwether Events images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 751.6 kB
  • After minification 751.6 kB
  • After compression 742.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 195.4 kB
  • After minification 195.0 kB
  • After compression 182.8 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. Bellwetherevents.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (70%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bellwether Events. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bellwetherevents.com accessibility score

86

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bellwetherevents.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

bellwetherevents.com SEO score

93

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

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 Bellwetherevents.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 Bellwetherevents.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

bellwetherevents.com

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