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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

bimmerboard.com

BimmerBoard BMW Forums and the world's best online BMW community. Sharing the knowledge!

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

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BimmerBoard is an online community for BMW owners and enthusiasts. On BimmerBoard, you'll find technical how-to articles and information for all BMW models, expert advice for repairs, maintenance, mod...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bimmerboard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 290 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bimmerboard.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bimmerboard.com

290 ms

bimmerboard.css

20 ms

show_ads.js

23 ms

bblogo_598x129.jpg

42 ms

e81.jpg

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Bimmerboard.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Bimmerboard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

165.2 kB

After Optimization

128.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bimmerboard.com main page is 165.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 113.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 36.4 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 30.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 113.9 kB
  • After minification 108.0 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. Bimmer Board images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 174 B

  • Original 298 B
  • After minification 178 B
  • After compression 124 B

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. Bimmerboard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 174 B or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (7%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bimmer Board. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bimmerboard.com

bimmerboard.com

290 ms

bimmerboard.css

bimmerboard.css

20 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

23 ms

bblogo_598x129.jpg

bblogo_598x129.jpg

42 ms

e81.jpg

e81.jpg

41 ms

e90.jpg

e90.jpg

43 ms

e60.jpg

e60.jpg

243 ms

e63.jpg

e63.jpg

449 ms

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e65.jpg

44 ms

e83.jpg

e83.jpg

42 ms

e70.jpg

e70.jpg

1451 ms

e71.jpg

e71.jpg

43 ms

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e85.jpg

43 ms

mini.jpg

mini.jpg

44 ms

f01.jpg

f01.jpg

44 ms

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e21.jpg

45 ms

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e30.jpg

46 ms

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e36.jpg

45 ms

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e46.jpg

46 ms

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e12.jpg

46 ms

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e28.jpg

46 ms

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e34.jpg

46 ms

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46 ms

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e24.jpg

46 ms

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46 ms

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e32.jpg

47 ms

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e38.jpg

47 ms

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e31.jpg

48 ms

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e53.jpg

48 ms

z3.jpg

z3.jpg

48 ms

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e52.jpg

49 ms

e9.jpg

e9.jpg

50 ms

e3.jpg

e3.jpg

50 ms

2002.jpg

2002.jpg

50 ms

make_a_donation.gif

make_a_donation.gif

51 ms

twitter_18x18.png

twitter_18x18.png

51 ms

facebook_18x18.png

facebook_18x18.png

52 ms

myspace_18x18.png

myspace_18x18.png

52 ms

ca-pub-5142446913489730.js

ca-pub-5142446913489730.js

47 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

47 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

46 ms

advertise_here.jpg

advertise_here.jpg

27 ms

vdorepair_728x90.gif

vdorepair_728x90.gif

24 ms

ads

ads

24 ms

osd.js

osd.js

19 ms

ads

ads

18 ms

Accessibility Review

bimmerboard.com accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

bimmerboard.com 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

SEO Factors

bimmerboard.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bimmerboard.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 Bimmerboard.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

bimmerboard.com

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