Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

blogs.bmj.com

BMJ Blogs BMJ Blogs - Insights and opinion on the latest news and research

Page Load Speed

708 ms in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

562 ms

Page Rendered

122 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.bmj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 684 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

blogs.bmj.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.bmj.com

24 ms

otSDKStub.js

39 ms

jquery-1-3-2.min.js

56 ms

bmjgroup-lib.pack-2.0.js

63 ms

flowplayer-3.1.0.min.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.bmj.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to Resources.bmj.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (298 ms) relates to the external source Group.bmj.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.4 kB (24%)

Content Size

315.2 kB

After Optimization

239.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.bmj.com main page is 315.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 203.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 8.6 kB, which is 11% 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 59.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 203.8 kB
  • After minification 203.7 kB
  • After compression 195.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Blogs.bmj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (37%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs BMJ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blogs.bmj.com accessibility score

88

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

Best Practices

blogs.bmj.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blogs.bmj.com SEO score

85

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 doesn't use 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 Blogs.bmj.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 Blogs.bmj.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: