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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

theminiforum.co.uk

The Mini Forum - Your online guide to everything Mini

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

454 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

452 ms

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About Website

Visit theminiforum.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date The Mini Forum content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theminiforum.co.uk

The Mini Forum was founded in 2003 and has been serving the Mini community ever since. We have technical sections to help you diagnose your Mini related problems. Project sections where you can docume...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theminiforum.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 454 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theminiforum.co.uk performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theminiforum.co.uk

454 ms

1477 ms

index.php

13 ms

index.php

948 ms

index.php

400 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Theminiforum.co.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Theminiforum.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

865.1 kB

After Optimization

714.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theminiforum.co.uk main page is 865.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 732.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 103.9 kB

  • Original 119.6 kB
  • After minification 91.1 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.4 kB, which is 24% 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 103.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 732.7 kB
  • After minification 697.5 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. The Mini Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 11.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (19%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

50

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Mini Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theminiforum.co.uk

theminiforum.co.uk

454 ms

1477 ms

index.php

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13 ms

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948 ms

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400 ms

ips.status.js

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677 ms

header.jpg

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221 ms

user_navigation.png

user_navigation.png

45 ms

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53 ms

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47 ms

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45 ms

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47 ms

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49 ms

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316 ms

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47 ms

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177 ms

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231 ms

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177 ms

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225 ms

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191 ms

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369 ms

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317 ms

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994 ms

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1252 ms

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7 ms

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1006 ms

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1160 ms

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1246 ms

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1179 ms

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1068 ms

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1022 ms

index.php

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1426 ms

Accessibility Review

theminiforum.co.uk accessibility score

73

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

theminiforum.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

theminiforum.co.uk SEO score

93

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Theminiforum.co.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 Theminiforum.co.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

theminiforum.co.uk

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