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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

msgboard.alphasoftware.com

Forums - Alpha Software Message Board

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

439 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

444 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Msgboard.alphasoftware.com page load time and found that the first response time was 439 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

msgboard.alphasoftware.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

msgboard.alphasoftware.com

439 ms

1019 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

78 ms

connection-min.js

75 ms

vbulletin-core.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Msgboard.alphasoftware.com, 65% (31 requests) were made to Alphasoftware.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to No-cache.hubspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Alphasoftware.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 302.5 kB (42%)

Content Size

711.9 kB

After Optimization

409.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Msgboard.alphasoftware.com main page is 711.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 342.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 82.2 kB

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 85.1 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 82.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 342.5 kB
  • After minification 309.3 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. Msg Board Alpha Software images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 187.1 kB

  • Original 275.2 kB
  • After minification 273.0 kB
  • After compression 88.0 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 187.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (64%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Msg Board Alpha Software. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

msgboard.alphasoftware.com

msgboard.alphasoftware.com

439 ms

1019 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

yuiloader-dom-event.js

78 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

75 ms

vbulletin-core.js

vbulletin-core.js

113 ms

css.php

css.php

262 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

73 ms

css.php

css.php

151 ms

css.php

css.php

145 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

internaltrack.js

internaltrack.js

125 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

109 ms

current.js

current.js

38 ms

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160 ms

alpha-logo.png

alpha-logo.png

48 ms

search.png

search.png

61 ms

navbit-home.png

navbit-home.png

59 ms

collapse_40b.png

collapse_40b.png

60 ms

forum_old-48.png

forum_old-48.png

65 ms

lastpost-right.png

lastpost-right.png

59 ms

icon1.png

icon1.png

106 ms

category_forum_old-48.png

category_forum_old-48.png

155 ms

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subforum_old-48.png

107 ms

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forum_link-48.png

109 ms

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forum_stats.png

107 ms

legend.png

legend.png

107 ms

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forum_new-16.png

154 ms

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forum_old-16.png

159 ms

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159 ms

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160 ms

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238 ms

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190 ms

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155 ms

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155 ms

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153 ms

106714.js

106714.js

165 ms

evergage.min.js

evergage.min.js

80 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

76 ms

sf14g.js

sf14g.js

189 ms

topmenu_bg.gif

topmenu_bg.gif

164 ms

black_downward_arrow.png

black_downward_arrow.png

117 ms

newbtn_middle.png

newbtn_middle.png

61 ms

grey-up.png

grey-up.png

86 ms

gradient-greytowhite.png

gradient-greytowhite.png

85 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

collect

collect

59 ms

tl813.js

tl813.js

245 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

45 ms

Accessibility Review

msgboard.alphasoftware.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

msgboard.alphasoftware.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

msgboard.alphasoftware.com SEO score

82

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

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

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 Msgboard.alphasoftware.com 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 Msgboard.alphasoftware.com 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

msgboard.alphasoftware.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Msg Board Alpha Software. 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: