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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

virtualearth.net

Bing Maps - Directions, trip planning, traffic cameras & more

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

375 ms

Resources Loaded

913 ms

Page Rendered

162 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virtualearth.net page load time and found that the first response time was 375 ms and then it took 1.1 sec 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

virtualearth.net performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

375 ms

bingHeader.css

82 ms

sw_mg_l_4d_orange.png

30 ms

veshell.js

144 ms

vecss.png

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Virtualearth.net, 19% (14 requests) were made to Bing.com and 12% (9 requests) were made to Ak.dynamic.t3.tiles.virtualearth.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (375 ms) relates to the external source Bing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 937.8 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

679.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virtualearth.net main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 930.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 127.2 kB

  • Original 178.8 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 51.6 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 127.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 376.2 kB
  • After minification 354.1 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. Virtualearth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 682.2 kB

  • Original 930.2 kB
  • After minification 917.0 kB
  • After compression 247.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 682.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 106.3 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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. Virtualearth.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (38%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virtualearth. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

375 ms

bingHeader.css

bingHeader.css

82 ms

sw_mg_l_4d_orange.png

sw_mg_l_4d_orange.png

30 ms

veshell.js

veshell.js

144 ms

vecss.png

vecss.png

33 ms

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20 ms

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10 ms

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10 ms

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16 ms

veapiBingTheme.css

veapiBingTheme.css

34 ms

MapControl.css

MapControl.css

38 ms

veapicore.js

veapicore.js

64 ms

veapiBingTheme.js

veapiBingTheme.js

49 ms

MapControl.js

MapControl.js

88 ms

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7 ms

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8 ms

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8 ms

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10 ms

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15 ms

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15 ms

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15 ms

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15 ms

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14 ms

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7 ms

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9 ms

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13 ms

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icn_close.png

51 ms

veapidelay.js

veapidelay.js

101 ms

veapiAnalytics.js

veapiAnalytics.js

17 ms

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40 ms

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3 ms

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38 ms

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39 ms

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38 ms

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39 ms

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39 ms

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38 ms

0313

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39 ms

veapiTasks.js

veapiTasks.js

54 ms

delayed.css

delayed.css

51 ms

veshell2.js

veshell2.js

45 ms

0223

0223

35 ms

0201

0201

36 ms

r0

r0

37 ms

Log

Log

170 ms

02.json

02.json

57 ms

03.json

03.json

56 ms

dropdown.png

dropdown.png

63 ms

YouAreHereBC.png

YouAreHereBC.png

58 ms

veapiOverlayStyleV2.png

veapiOverlayStyleV2.png

57 ms

rotate_left.png

rotate_left.png

60 ms

rotate_right.png

rotate_right.png

61 ms

BreadcrumbUnlock.png

BreadcrumbUnlock.png

60 ms

0311

0311

54 ms

0333

0333

55 ms

streetside.png

streetside.png

76 ms

r1

r1

41 ms

r2

r2

43 ms

r3

r3

42 ms

explore_imagery_BE_1033.png

explore_imagery_BE_1033.png

131 ms

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explore_imagery_2064.png

52 ms

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sw_mg_l_4d_bo.png

17 ms

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4 ms

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42 ms

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14 ms

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2 ms

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1 ms

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ncheader

21 ms

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reportActivity

reportActivity

52 ms

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3 ms

Accessibility Review

virtualearth.net accessibility score

62

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

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

virtualearth.net best practices score

85

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

virtualearth.net SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Virtualearth.net 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 Virtualearth.net 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

virtualearth.net

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