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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 38

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

blog.bimsmith.com

BIMsmith Blog - Everything Revit, Architecture, and Building Products

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

711 ms

Page Rendered

418 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.bimsmith.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.bimsmith.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.bimsmith.com

105 ms

blog.bimsmith.com

168 ms

js

91 ms

font-awesome.css

33 ms

all.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.bimsmith.com, 19% (8 requests) were made to Bimsmithstorage.blob.core.windows.net and 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (438 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.bimsmith.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.0 kB (28%)

Content Size

315.9 kB

After Optimization

228.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.bimsmith.com main page is 315.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 172.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 9.3 kB, which is 30% 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 25.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 35.9 kB

  • Original 172.4 kB
  • After minification 136.5 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. Obviously, Blog BIMsmith needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.9 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 95.6 kB
  • After minification 95.5 kB
  • After compression 74.9 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 20.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 16.6 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. Blog.bimsmith.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (44%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog BIMsmith. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.bimsmith.com

blog.bimsmith.com

105 ms

blog.bimsmith.com

blog.bimsmith.com

168 ms

js

js

91 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

33 ms

all.css

all.css

86 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

38 ms

css

css

54 ms

toastr.min.css

toastr.min.css

49 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

118 ms

main.js

main.js

144 ms

notifications.js

notifications.js

144 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

85 ms

toastr.min.js

toastr.min.js

85 ms

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2024828_b_Neuehouse%20Cinema%20by%20Rockwell%20Group-1.jpg

302 ms

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2024711_m_hyundai%20lnc%20header%201200.png

201 ms

logo.png

logo.png

197 ms

img01.jpg

img01.jpg

201 ms

Photo

Photo

438 ms

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196 ms

ckeditor.js

ckeditor.js

43 ms

jquerybundle.min.js

jquerybundle.min.js

235 ms

bootstrapjsbundle.min.js

bootstrapjsbundle.min.js

200 ms

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2024711_m_Paris%20Aquatics%20Centre%20Main%20Image.png

233 ms

2024711_m_BIMsmith%20Logo_0_blob-image

2024711_m_BIMsmith%20Logo_0_blob-image

199 ms

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202478_m_BIM%20Invitational%20Header%201200.png

297 ms

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2024613_m_Seema%20Gujral%20Flagship%20Store%20by%20Studio%20Renesa-10.png

299 ms

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202461_m_AMA%2BLang%2BHouse_37.jpeg

297 ms

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2024514_m_Beijing%20City%20Library%20Images-3.png

233 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

198 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

198 ms

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soc-fb.png

233 ms

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soc-tw.png

233 ms

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233 ms

soc-in.png

soc-in.png

245 ms

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soc-p.png

297 ms

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297 ms

select-arrow.png

select-arrow.png

104 ms

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26 ms

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34 ms

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51 ms

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102 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

55 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.bimsmith.com accessibility score

74

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

blog.bimsmith.com best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.bimsmith.com SEO score

38

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.bimsmith.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blog.bimsmith.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

blog.bimsmith.com

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