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m3forum.net

M3Forum - Home

Page Load Speed

50.1 sec in total

First Response

480 ms

Resources Loaded

41.4 sec

Page Rendered

8.2 sec

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About Website

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M3 Forum.com is an enthusiast site for BMW M3 and M power owners! Discuss and chat about BMW M3, M5, M coupe, and other BMW M cars including E46 M3!

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Key Findings

We analyzed M3forum.net page load time and found that the first response time was 480 ms and then it took 49.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 29 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

m3forum.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

m3forum.net

480 ms

tabs_slides.css

19859 ms

tabs_slides.js

19855 ms

splitmenu.css

19856 ms

slimbox.css

19669 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original M3forum.net, 62% (36 requests) were made to M3zine.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.9 sec) relates to the external source M3forum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 908.2 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

495.0 kB

In fact, the total size of M3forum.net main page is 1.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 668.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 55.1 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 46.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 386.3 kB

  • Original 668.1 kB
  • After minification 281.8 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. Obviously, M3Forum needs image optimization as it can save up to 386.3 kB or 58% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 415.2 kB

  • Original 603.7 kB
  • After minification 504.6 kB
  • After compression 188.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 415.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 63.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. M3forum.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (27%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M3Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

m3forum.net SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • 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 M3forum.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that M3forum.net 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of M3Forum. 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: