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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

ibf.org

Institute of Business Forecasting | IBF.org | IBF

Page Load Speed

781 ms in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

508 ms

Page Rendered

236 ms

ibf.org screenshot

About Website

Visit ibf.org now to see the best up-to-date IBF content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ibf.org

IBF is the membership organization for Business Forecasting, Planning, S&OP and Demand Planning, providing training, certification and conferences.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ibf.org page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 744 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

ibf.org performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,600 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ibf.org

37 ms

ibf.org

48 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

41 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

60 ms

utils.app.js

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Ibf.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (317 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

583.1 kB

After Optimization

534.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ibf.org main page is 583.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 495.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 43.2 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 6.3 kB, which is 15% 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 36.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 495.0 kB
  • After minification 486.0 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. IBF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 43.2 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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

-81%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 318 B

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. Ibf.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (59%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IBF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ibf.org

ibf.org

37 ms

ibf.org

ibf.org

48 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

41 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

60 ms

utils.app.js

utils.app.js

5 ms

app_style.css

app_style.css

6 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

98 ms

back_sidefills.gif

back_sidefills.gif

46 ms

ga.js

ga.js

87 ms

back_bars.gif

back_bars.gif

35 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

36 ms

back_topbar-.gif

back_topbar-.gif

36 ms

home_ibf_logo.gif

home_ibf_logo.gif

43 ms

home_pic_top.jpg

home_pic_top.jpg

43 ms

home_pic_mid.jpg

home_pic_mid.jpg

54 ms

conferences_butt.gif

conferences_butt.gif

63 ms

membership_butt.gif

membership_butt.gif

68 ms

journal_butt.gif

journal_butt.gif

67 ms

certification_butt.gif

certification_butt.gif

68 ms

chapter_butt.gif

chapter_butt.gif

68 ms

awards_butt.gif

awards_butt.gif

71 ms

ambassador_butt.gif

ambassador_butt.gif

86 ms

back_blacknav.gif

back_blacknav.gif

86 ms

separator.gif

separator.gif

84 ms

jobs_butt.gif

jobs_butt.gif

84 ms

books_butt.gif

books_butt.gif

83 ms

discussion_butt.gif

discussion_butt.gif

86 ms

research_butt.gif

research_butt.gif

117 ms

vendor_butt.gif

vendor_butt.gif

117 ms

knwldge_butt.gif

knwldge_butt.gif

86 ms

inhouse_butt.gif

inhouse_butt.gif

116 ms

about_butt.gif

about_butt.gif

116 ms

faq_butt.gif

faq_butt.gif

116 ms

login_butt.gif

login_butt.gif

116 ms

upcoming-events.gif

upcoming-events.gif

140 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

116 ms

certification-exams.gif

certification-exams.gif

120 ms

back_news_vertical.gif

back_news_vertical.gif

120 ms

event5.jpg

event5.jpg

138 ms

aboutibf.gif

aboutibf.gif

126 ms

news_back_right.gif

news_back_right.gif

119 ms

news_slant.gif

news_slant.gif

121 ms

back_news_bot.gif

back_news_bot.gif

120 ms

ibf_comp%5Bfinal%5D_81.gif

ibf_comp%5Bfinal%5D_81.gif

121 ms

120 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

317 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

97 ms

sub_back.gif

sub_back.gif

102 ms

search_slant.gif

search_slant.gif

102 ms

search.gif

search.gif

102 ms

search_go.gif

search_go.gif

104 ms

JBF-W15.jpg

JBF-W15.jpg

101 ms

IBF_2016_Banner.jpg

IBF_2016_Banner.jpg

97 ms

onlineTrainingHome.jpg

onlineTrainingHome.jpg

88 ms

book-img-fundamental-Home.jpg

book-img-fundamental-Home.jpg

80 ms

email_banner.jpg

email_banner.jpg

79 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

82 ms

linkedin.jpg

linkedin.jpg

81 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

81 ms

blog4.gif

blog4.gif

79 ms

YouTubeBanner.jpg

YouTubeBanner.jpg

66 ms

Google+.jpg

Google+.jpg

67 ms

orange_bott.gif

orange_bott.gif

68 ms

skype.jpg

skype.jpg

66 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

35 ms

40 ms

AboutIBF.gif

AboutIBF.gif

22 ms

collect

collect

65 ms

LinkedIn.jpg

LinkedIn.jpg

16 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

16 ms

Accessibility Review

ibf.org accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

ibf.org 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ibf.org SEO score

77

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ibf.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 Ibf.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

ibf.org

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