Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

babbleforum.com

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Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

590 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

819 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Babbleforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 590 ms and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

babbleforum.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.267

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

babbleforum.com

590 ms

www.babbleforum.com

3173 ms

styleswitcher.js

202 ms

forum_fn.js

280 ms

style.php

706 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Babbleforum.com, 10% (12 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net and 8% (10 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Babbleforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 474.1 kB (50%)

Content Size

942.3 kB

After Optimization

468.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Babbleforum.com main page is 942.3 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. 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 524.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 96.3 kB

  • Original 111.1 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 96.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 288.3 kB
  • After minification 272.3 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. Babbleforum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 347.3 kB

  • Original 524.6 kB
  • After minification 521.8 kB
  • After compression 177.3 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 347.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Babbleforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (49%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Babbleforum. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

babbleforum.com accessibility score

86

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.

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

Best Practices

babbleforum.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

babbleforum.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Babbleforum.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Babbleforum.com 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

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