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boston.bbb.org

Local BBB | Better Business Bureau Serving Eastern MA, ME, RI & VT | Better Business Bureau®

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boston.bbb.org page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 2.1 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

boston.bbb.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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13 ms

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Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Boston.bbb.org, 36% (46 requests) were made to Bbb.org and 4% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (445 ms) relates to the external source S3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (60%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

912.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boston.bbb.org main page is 2.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 51.2 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 10.3 kB, which is 17% 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 46.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 79.9 kB

  • Original 384.3 kB
  • After minification 304.4 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, Boston BBB needs image optimization as it can save up to 79.9 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

-57%

Potential reduce by 647.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 490.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 647.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 586.0 kB

  • Original 688.6 kB
  • After minification 588.7 kB
  • After compression 102.6 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. Boston.bbb.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 586.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (65%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston BBB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

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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 Boston.bbb.org 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 Boston.bbb.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

boston.bbb.org

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