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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

ukbmd.org.uk

UKBMD - Births, Marriages, Deaths Indexes & Census Transcriptions Online for UK Family History and Genealogy

Page Load Speed

22.7 sec in total

First Response

477 ms

Resources Loaded

14.7 sec

Page Rendered

7.6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing UKBMD content for Ukraine. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ukbmd.org.uk

UKBMD Births, Marriages and Deaths Indexes Online. Local BMD Indexes, Family History, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Monumental Inscriptions, Civil Registration, GRO Indexes, BMD, BDM, UK 1841 to 1911 ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukbmd.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 477 ms and then it took 22.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ukbmd.org.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukbmd.org.uk

477 ms

ukbmd.org.uk

831 ms

ukbmd3.css

282 ms

legal.css

305 ms

main.js

307 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ukbmd.org.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) relates to the external source Images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

778.3 kB

After Optimization

455.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ukbmd.org.uk main page is 778.3 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. Javascripts take 636.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 29.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 924 B

  • Original 82.0 kB
  • After minification 81.1 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. UKBMD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 277.3 kB

  • Original 636.5 kB
  • After minification 635.1 kB
  • After compression 359.2 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 277.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 17.4 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Ukbmd.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (51%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UKBMD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ukbmd.org.uk

ukbmd.org.uk

477 ms

ukbmd.org.uk

ukbmd.org.uk

831 ms

ukbmd3.css

ukbmd3.css

282 ms

legal.css

legal.css

305 ms

main.js

main.js

307 ms

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486 ms

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1146 ms

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1269 ms

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1607 ms

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2694 ms

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650 ms

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456 ms

Accessibility Review

ukbmd.org.uk accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

ukbmd.org.uk best practices score

62

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

High

Registers an unload listener

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ukbmd.org.uk SEO score

91

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 uses 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 Ukbmd.org.uk 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 Ukbmd.org.uk 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

ukbmd.org.uk

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