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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

bire.org

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

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About Website

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Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a subsidiary of Clarkson University headquartered in Beacon, New York, is a not-for-profit environmental research organization engaging scientists, engineers...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bire.org page load time and found that the first response time was 211 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

bire.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bire.org

211 ms

www.bire.org

283 ms

css

20 ms

site.js

168 ms

common-e2262cb4dabe71390604-min.js

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Bire.org, 13% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) belongs to the original domain Bire.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bire.org main page is 3.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 56.1 kB

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 56.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Bire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 97.3 kB

  • Original 552.3 kB
  • After minification 552.3 kB
  • After compression 455.0 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 97.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 157.3 kB
  • After minification 157.3 kB
  • After compression 123.6 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. Bire.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.8 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (41%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bire.org

bire.org

211 ms

www.bire.org

www.bire.org

283 ms

css

css

20 ms

site.js

site.js

168 ms

common-e2262cb4dabe71390604-min.js

common-e2262cb4dabe71390604-min.js

180 ms

commerce-9953ec87ae6ddf627657-min.js

commerce-9953ec87ae6ddf627657-min.js

209 ms

commerce-7f4130fee43d9b486ac93410db2112d3-min.css

commerce-7f4130fee43d9b486ac93410db2112d3-min.css

214 ms

site.css

site.css

169 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

12 ms

concrete-texture.png

concrete-texture.png

166 ms

-format-1500w.jpg

-format-1500w.jpg

196 ms

staticmap-markers-color-white-41.507349--73.97480000000002-size-400x200-scale-2-zoom-12.0-style-visibility-simplified-saturation--100-gamma-0.5-sensor-false.jpg

staticmap-markers-color-white-41.507349--73.97480000000002-size-400x200-scale-2-zoom-12.0-style-visibility-simplified-saturation--100-gamma-0.5-sensor-false.jpg

195 ms

all.js

all.js

147 ms

collect

collect

118 ms

icon-searchqueries-20-dark.png

icon-searchqueries-20-dark.png

181 ms

social-accounts.svg

social-accounts.svg

179 ms

play-button.png

play-button.png

176 ms

exhibition-photo2.png

exhibition-photo2.png

136 ms

125 ms

BIRE-Homepage_2013.jpg

BIRE-Homepage_2013.jpg

413 ms

static1.squarespace.jpg

static1.squarespace.jpg

415 ms

static1.squarespace.jpg

static1.squarespace.jpg

413 ms

BI-WOW-Flyer9-15v2WebCropped.jpg

BI-WOW-Flyer9-15v2WebCropped.jpg

417 ms

Ext_approach_annex.jpg

Ext_approach_annex.jpg

415 ms

Constitution-Marsh_TP.JPG

Constitution-Marsh_TP.JPG

416 ms

extra-icon-font.svg

extra-icon-font.svg

450 ms

social-icon-font.woff

social-icon-font.woff

460 ms

all.js

all.js

7 ms

1459304081653.jpeg

1459304081653.jpeg

41 ms

37 ms

f2yrYaecSzM

f2yrYaecSzM

100 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

7 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

32 ms

base.js

base.js

61 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

124 ms

UCY5Klx_0fJhMytIltuKLUwnjJON9GWedkq6jjIrpW0.js

UCY5Klx_0fJhMytIltuKLUwnjJON9GWedkq6jjIrpW0.js

90 ms

embed.js

embed.js

23 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

43 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

52 ms

id

id

33 ms

Accessibility Review

bire.org accessibility score

81

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bire.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bire.org SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Bire.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 Bire.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

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