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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

ukbmd.org.uk

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

Page Load Speed

21.8 sec in total

First Response

306 ms

Resources Loaded

21.2 sec

Page Rendered

284 ms

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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 306 ms and then it took 21.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

ukbmd.org.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,930 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukbmd.org.uk

306 ms

ukbmd.org.uk

563 ms

ukbmdmobile.css

110 ms

media.css

215 ms

legal.css

301 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Ukbmd.org.uk, 13% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Assoc-amazon.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

755.9 kB

After Optimization

677.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ukbmd.org.uk main page is 755.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 451.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 67.3 kB

  • Original 116.2 kB
  • After minification 114.2 kB
  • After compression 48.9 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 67.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 184.5 kB
  • After minification 177.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 451.0 kB
  • After minification 450.4 kB
  • After compression 447.9 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 1.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (53%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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306 ms

ukbmd.org.uk

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563 ms

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215 ms

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301 ms

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77 ms

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108 ms

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116 ms

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141 ms

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118 ms

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92 ms

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75 ms

Accessibility Review

ukbmd.org.uk accessibility score

84

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ukbmd.org.uk SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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 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

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: