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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

bostonwebsitemakeover.com

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

895 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostonwebsitemakeover.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostonwebsitemakeover.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,430 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostonwebsitemakeover.com

1039 ms

bootstrap.min.css

884 ms

flexslider.css

801 ms

jcountdown.css

816 ms

style.css

780 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Bostonwebsitemakeover.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Bostonwebsitemakeover.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.6 MB (75%)

Content Size

8.8 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostonwebsitemakeover.com main page is 8.8 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. 85% 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 7.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 75.6 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 98.4 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 75.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 5.9 MB

  • Original 7.8 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Obviously, Bostonwebsitemakeover needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.9 MB or 75% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 392.9 kB

  • Original 610.2 kB
  • After minification 606.9 kB
  • After compression 217.3 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 392.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 218.4 kB

  • Original 256.5 kB
  • After minification 228.6 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Bostonwebsitemakeover.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 218.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (34%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bostonwebsitemakeover. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bostonwebsitemakeover.com

bostonwebsitemakeover.com

1039 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

884 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

801 ms

jcountdown.css

jcountdown.css

816 ms

style.css

style.css

780 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

917 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

799 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

859 ms

gf.placeholders.js

gf.placeholders.js

913 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

8 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

814 ms

section-selectors.js

section-selectors.js

857 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

897 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

896 ms

toucheffects.js

toucheffects.js

898 ms

custom-scripts.js

custom-scripts.js

954 ms

formreset.css

formreset.css

954 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

954 ms

formsmain.css

formsmain.css

1019 ms

readyclass.css

readyclass.css

968 ms

browsers.css

browsers.css

1024 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1023 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

284 ms

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boston-extreme-website-makeover.png

616 ms

header-background.jpg

header-background.jpg

924 ms

BREW_logo.jpg

BREW_logo.jpg

615 ms

slider-image-5.jpg

slider-image-5.jpg

723 ms

slider-image-6.jpg

slider-image-6.jpg

784 ms

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slider-image-7.jpg

802 ms

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866 ms

Joshua-Todd.png

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712 ms

Scott-Smigler.png

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882 ms

Mike-Flint.png

Mike-Flint.png

898 ms

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876 ms

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1051 ms

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Jim-Storer.png

1026 ms

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1047 ms

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986 ms

Tim-Kirchner.png

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1064 ms

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1020 ms

brew-logo-large.jpg

brew-logo-large.jpg

1079 ms

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1113 ms

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1105 ms

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1115 ms

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1118 ms

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1136 ms

MITX.png

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1152 ms

all.js

all.js

76 ms

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1186 ms

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1231 ms

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1206 ms

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1154 ms

farrington-master-logo.PNG

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1426 ms

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metropolis-logo.png

1169 ms

metropolis-studio.jpg

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1288 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

595 ms

ga.js

ga.js

436 ms

ProximaNova-Xbold-webfont.woff

ProximaNova-Xbold-webfont.woff

1151 ms

ProximaNova-Reg-webfont.woff

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1157 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

465 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

373 ms

ProximaNova-Sbold-webfont.woff

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1084 ms

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imac-overlay.png

1138 ms

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ewm-custom.woff

ewm-custom.woff

1095 ms

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175 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

244 ms

ping

ping

153 ms

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86 ms

MIC-winner.jpg

MIC-winner.jpg

779 ms

APT-winner.jpg

APT-winner.jpg

915 ms

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71 ms

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104 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

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34 ms

BCAE-winner.jpg

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790 ms

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730 ms

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666 ms

jot

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98 ms

like.php

like.php

73 ms

Accessibility Review

bostonwebsitemakeover.com accessibility score

57

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

bostonwebsitemakeover.com 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

SEO Factors

bostonwebsitemakeover.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bostonwebsitemakeover.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Bostonwebsitemakeover.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

bostonwebsitemakeover.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bostonwebsitemakeover. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: