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gmforum.com

GM Forum - Buick, Cadillac, Olds, GMC & Pontiac chat

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

441 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gmforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gmforum.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gmforum.com

217 ms

www.gmforum.com

673 ms

amzn_ads.js

16 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 200 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Gmforum.com, 10% (19 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 5% (9 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (673 ms) belongs to the original domain Gmforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (60%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

724.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gmforum.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 186.0 kB
  • After minification 179.3 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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 144.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 215.9 kB
  • After minification 205.8 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. GM Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 909.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 471.4 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 909.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Gmforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 120 (74%)

Requests Now

163

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 163 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GM Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

gmforum.com SEO score

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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 Gmforum.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 Gmforum.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

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