Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

bbs.boingboing.net

Boing Boing BBS - Forums of BoingBoing.net

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

314 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bbs.boingboing.net page load time and found that the first response time was 314 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bbs.boingboing.net performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bbs.boingboing.net

314 ms

desktop_326ba84edfab6d53f45c6aa67c4791ed574efb7f.css

125 ms

preload_store-d16a3675434b5a0043157cfc2b850471.js

123 ms

en-b8a78732c1b048657404d3627bc9b0e5.js

150 ms

ember_jquery-37c15254b70c40ceb7888cb7248c79d6.js

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bbs.boingboing.net, 72% (70 requests) were made to Cdn.discourse.org and 16% (16 requests) were made to Avatars.discourse.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) relates to the external source Pixel.quantserve.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 832.7 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

435.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Bbs.boingboing.net main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 823.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 118.9 kB

  • Original 141.3 kB
  • After minification 139.3 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 118.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 110.6 kB
  • After minification 105.6 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. BBS Boing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 556.4 kB

  • Original 823.0 kB
  • After minification 822.7 kB
  • After compression 266.6 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 556.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 152.3 kB

  • Original 192.8 kB
  • After minification 192.1 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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. Bbs.boingboing.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 152.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (41%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BBS Boing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bbs.boingboing.net accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

bbs.boingboing.net best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bbs.boingboing.net SEO score

96

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bbs.boingboing.net 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 Bbs.boingboing.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

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