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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

forumco.com

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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forumco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forumco.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forumco.com

332 ms

urchin.js

23 ms

ColourModStyle.css

38 ms

StyleModScript.js

76 ms

ColourModScript.js

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Forumco.com, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Support.forumco.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Forumco.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.6 kB (58%)

Content Size

66.2 kB

After Optimization

27.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forumco.com main page is 66.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 27.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 1.8 kB, which is 14% 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 9.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 14.2 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. Obviously, Forum Co needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 17.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Forumco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (43%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forumco.com

forumco.com

332 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

23 ms

ColourModStyle.css

ColourModStyle.css

38 ms

StyleModScript.js

StyleModScript.js

76 ms

ColourModScript.js

ColourModScript.js

139 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

close.gif

close.gif

138 ms

signup.gif

signup.gif

215 ms

captcha_image.asp

captcha_image.asp

388 ms

demo.gif

demo.gif

206 ms

support.gif

support.gif

205 ms

aboutus.gif

aboutus.gif

231 ms

sitemap.gif

sitemap.gif

465 ms

browse.gif

browse.gif

1898 ms

upgrade.gif

upgrade.gif

533 ms

speaker.gif

speaker.gif

273 ms

forumcologo.gif

forumcologo.gif

40 ms

freee.gif

freee.gif

66 ms

home.gif

home.gif

67 ms

faq.gif

faq.gif

286 ms

boardindex.gif

boardindex.gif

101 ms

signupnow.gif

signupnow.gif

68 ms

Accessibility Review

forumco.com accessibility score

46

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

forumco.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

forumco.com SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

forumco.com

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