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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

forummelbourne.com.au

Home | Forum Melbourne

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

555 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forummelbourne.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 5.5 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

forummelbourne.com.au performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.641

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forummelbourne.com.au

65 ms

forummelbourne.com.au

1325 ms

js

89 ms

gtm.js

133 ms

fbevents.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Forummelbourne.com.au, 18% (8 requests) were made to Admin.marrinergroup.com.au and 14% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Admin.marrinergroup.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 551.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forummelbourne.com.au main page is 6.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 46.0 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. 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 38.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 511.0 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.4 MB

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 Melbourne images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 850 B

  • Original 214.6 kB
  • After minification 214.6 kB
  • After compression 213.7 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 763 B

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. Forummelbourne.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (55%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Melbourne. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forummelbourne.com.au

forummelbourne.com.au

65 ms

forummelbourne.com.au

forummelbourne.com.au

1325 ms

js

js

89 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

133 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

34 ms

api.js

api.js

105 ms

whg4cqz.css

whg4cqz.css

79 ms

vendor.css

vendor.css

668 ms

app.css

app.css

703 ms

manifest.js

manifest.js

718 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

719 ms

app.js

app.js

720 ms

jquery.textfill.js

jquery.textfill.js

726 ms

jqvalidate-additional-methods.js

jqvalidate-additional-methods.js

1358 ms

core.js

core.js

75 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

46 ms

p.css

p.css

24 ms

logo-forum-melbourne-dark.png

logo-forum-melbourne-dark.png

1333 ms

facebook-svg.svg

facebook-svg.svg

1335 ms

instagram-svg.svg

instagram-svg.svg

1336 ms

spotify-svg.svg

spotify-svg.svg

1332 ms

subscribe.svg

subscribe.svg

1333 ms

event-banner-img.png

event-banner-img.png

1998 ms

logo-forum-melbourne.svg

logo-forum-melbourne.svg

2023 ms

wim0shj.css

wim0shj.css

53 ms

p.css

p.css

3 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

1364 ms

hero-img-1700710604.jpeg

hero-img-1700710604.jpeg

1367 ms

white-arrow-btn-bottom.svg

white-arrow-btn-bottom.svg

1381 ms

arrow-btn.svg

arrow-btn.svg

1377 ms

icon-close.svg

icon-close.svg

2055 ms

icon-subscribe.svg

icon-subscribe.svg

2068 ms

d

d

3 ms

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d

8 ms

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d

9 ms

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d

9 ms

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Forum-Web-Assets-2024-v2-ShowsTicketsThumbnail-750x600-1721011540.jpg

157 ms

2ShowsTicketsThumbnail-750pxwx600pxh-1712731306.jpg

2ShowsTicketsThumbnail-750pxwx600pxh-1712731306.jpg

884 ms

BS-FORUMWEBSITE_EMAIL_ShowsTicketsThumbnail-1722579806.jpg

BS-FORUMWEBSITE_EMAIL_ShowsTicketsThumbnail-1722579806.jpg

886 ms

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750x6003-1713222370.png

897 ms

MTS750x600-1715672649.jpg

MTS750x600-1715672649.jpg

891 ms

DuniesFidlar_The-Forum_ShowThumbnail-1718605673.jpg

DuniesFidlar_The-Forum_ShowThumbnail-1718605673.jpg

2109 ms

FORUM-SHOWTIXTHUMB-1712623464.png

FORUM-SHOWTIXTHUMB-1712623464.png

878 ms

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750x6004-1713492463.png

1562 ms

Accessibility Review

forummelbourne.com.au accessibility score

59

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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>).

Best Practices

forummelbourne.com.au best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

forummelbourne.com.au SEO score

75

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forummelbourne.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 Forummelbourne.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is utf8. 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

forummelbourne.com.au

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