Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

bic.co.uk

Bournemouth International Centre | Welcome to Bournemouth International Centre

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

478 ms

bic.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bic.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Bic best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about bic.co.uk

Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) is south coast home to popular music, comedy and live entertainment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bic.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bic.co.uk performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bic.co.uk

162 ms

www.bic.co.uk

531 ms

main-aa883557d3.min.css

18 ms

app-5d00c028e1.js

8 ms

4.9af0742dc696e5a2fb80.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Bic.co.uk, 20% (2 requests) were made to D3ki73vo91x51q.cloudfront.net and 10% (1 request) were made to D2v1fnnqbwu22q.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (543 ms) relates to the external source D2v1fnnqbwu22q.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

277.0 kB

After Optimization

165.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Bic.co.uk main page is 277.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 160.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 111.2 kB

  • Original 160.6 kB
  • After minification 159.0 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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 111.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 96.9 kB
  • After minification 96.9 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. Bic images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 583 B

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 19.5 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. Bic.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (63%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bic.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

bic.co.uk 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

bic.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Bic.co.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 Bic.co.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

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