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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

birmingham.org.uk

Visit Birmingham - Official Website for Tourism, Events and Information

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

399 ms

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About Website

Visit birmingham.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Birmingham content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about birmingham.org.uk

The official website for things to do, attractions, events and accommodation in Birmingham and West Midlands, England.

Visit birmingham.org.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Birmingham.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 3.2 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

birmingham.org.uk performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.277

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birmingham.org.uk

246 ms

www.visitbirmingham.com

349 ms

visitbirmingham.com

491 ms

wildfire-templates_combined.css

79 ms

core_combined.css

377 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Birmingham.org.uk, 57% (96 requests) were made to Visitbirmingham.com and 12% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Visitbirmingham.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birmingham.org.uk main page is 2.4 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. 75% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 78.5 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.4 kB, which is 13% 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 75.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Birmingham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 210.7 kB

  • Original 328.5 kB
  • After minification 305.7 kB
  • After compression 117.8 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 210.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 80.9 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Birmingham.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (44%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

89

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birmingham. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

birmingham.org.uk

birmingham.org.uk

246 ms

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349 ms

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491 ms

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79 ms

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87 ms

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activityi;src=3592026;type=birmi592;cat=ve-bi150;ord=8515052420552.82

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150 ms

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252 ms

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Accessibility Review

birmingham.org.uk accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

birmingham.org.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

birmingham.org.uk SEO score

83

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

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 Birmingham.org.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 Birmingham.org.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

birmingham.org.uk

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