Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

forum.fundingcircle.com

Funding Circle

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forum.fundingcircle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 175 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forum.fundingcircle.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.213

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forum.fundingcircle.com

175 ms

style.css

152 ms

warnings.css

94 ms

editor.css

119 ms

vanillicon.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Forum.fundingcircle.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to 15254b2dcaab7f5478ab-24461f391e20b7336331d5789078af53.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to W4.vanillicon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (970 ms) relates to the external source 15254b2dcaab7f5478ab-24461f391e20b7336331d5789078af53.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 886.8 kB (79%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

234.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Forum.fundingcircle.com main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 730.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 83.8 kB

  • Original 94.5 kB
  • After minification 80.1 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.5 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 83.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 85.8 kB
  • After minification 82.8 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. Forum Funding Circle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 627.0 kB

  • Original 730.9 kB
  • After minification 384.4 kB
  • After compression 103.9 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 627.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 173.0 kB

  • Original 210.5 kB
  • After minification 163.2 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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. Forum.fundingcircle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (41%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Funding Circle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forum.fundingcircle.com 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

forum.fundingcircle.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

forum.fundingcircle.com SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forum.fundingcircle.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Forum.fundingcircle.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 data is detected on the main page of Forum Funding Circle. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: