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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

biglocal.com

BigLocal.com - Helping Get Your Business Listed Locally on Google, MSN, and Yahoo!

Page Load Speed

889 ms in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

458 ms

Page Rendered

261 ms

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About Website

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BigLocal.com helps small and medium sized companies get top listings Google Local, Yahoo local and MSN local and helps keep them there by doing monthly optimization on those listings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Biglocal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 719 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

biglocal.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.biglocal.com

170 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

json2.min.js

30 ms

core.js

47 ms

biglocal.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Biglocal.com, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (170 ms) belongs to the original domain Biglocal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

149.0 kB

After Optimization

127.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Biglocal.com main page is 149.0 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. Images take 103.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.7 kB, which is 22% 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 5.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 65 B

  • Original 103.0 kB
  • After minification 103.0 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. Big Local images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 8.8 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Biglocal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (43%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Big Local. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.biglocal.com

www.biglocal.com

170 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

json2.min.js

json2.min.js

30 ms

core.js

core.js

47 ms

biglocal.css

biglocal.css

56 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

19 ms

button-howitworks.gif

button-howitworks.gif

101 ms

meat-left-index-3million-merchants.gif

meat-left-index-3million-merchants.gif

103 ms

local-business-search.jpg

local-business-search.jpg

104 ms

smallbusiness-exposure.gif

smallbusiness-exposure.gif

103 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

body-bg.gif

body-bg.gif

28 ms

biglocal-logo.jpg

biglocal-logo.jpg

91 ms

intheader-nav-bg.gif

intheader-nav-bg.gif

96 ms

meat-bg.gif

meat-bg.gif

92 ms

leftnav-bg.gif

leftnav-bg.gif

93 ms

howitworks-bg.gif

howitworks-bg.gif

94 ms

content-bg.gif

content-bg.gif

93 ms

index-biglocal-how-bg.jpg

index-biglocal-how-bg.jpg

114 ms

form-bg.gif

form-bg.gif

129 ms

search-engines.jpg

search-engines.jpg

116 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

biglocal.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

biglocal.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

biglocal.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Biglocal.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 Biglocal.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

biglocal.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Big Local. 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: