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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

fordforums.com.au

Australian Ford Forums - Powered by vBulletin

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

667 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fordforums.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 667 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fordforums.com.au performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fordforums.com.au

667 ms

tapatalkdetect.js

306 ms

vbulletin_important.css

100 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

47 ms

connection-min.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Fordforums.com.au, 5% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Fordforums.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.5 kB (32%)

Content Size

576.2 kB

After Optimization

389.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fordforums.com.au main page is 576.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 317.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 129.2 kB

  • Original 151.0 kB
  • After minification 145.5 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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 129.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 317.9 kB
  • After minification 291.7 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. Ford Forums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 106.4 kB
  • After compression 76.1 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 30.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 206 B

  • Original 416 B
  • After minification 323 B
  • After compression 210 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. Fordforums.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 206 B or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (35%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ford Forums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fordforums.com.au

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667 ms

tapatalkdetect.js

tapatalkdetect.js

306 ms

vbulletin_important.css

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100 ms

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47 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

56 ms

vbulletin_global.js

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210 ms

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156 ms

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109 ms

adsbygoogle.js

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6 ms

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97 ms

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50 ms

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106 ms

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895 ms

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72 ms

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65 ms

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62 ms

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61 ms

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60 ms

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175 ms

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186 ms

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624 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

933 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

538 ms

gradient_thead.gif

gradient_thead.gif

737 ms

ads

ads

342 ms

osd.js

osd.js

87 ms

ads

ads

174 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

67 ms

abg.js

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158 ms

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323 ms

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Accessibility Review

fordforums.com.au accessibility score

70

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.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

fordforums.com.au best practices score

58

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

fordforums.com.au SEO score

69

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

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 Fordforums.com.au 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 Fordforums.com.au 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

fordforums.com.au

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