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mercedesforum.com

Mercedes Forum - Mercedes Benz Enthusiast Forums

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

478 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercedesforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mercedesforum.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

forum

71 ms

343 ms

amzn_ads.js

27 ms

jquery.min.js

36 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 220 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Mercedesforum.com, 9% (19 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 7% (16 requests) were made to Static.ibsrv.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source Pixel.rubiconproject.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 895.3 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

721.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Mercedesforum.com main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 119.5 kB

  • Original 147.3 kB
  • After minification 141.3 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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 119.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 363.3 kB
  • After minification 315.3 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, Mercedes Forum needs image optimization as it can save up to 48.0 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 707.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 372.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 707.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Mercedesforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 124 (70%)

Requests Now

177

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 177 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercedes Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

mercedesforum.com SEO score

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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 Mercedesforum.com 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 Mercedesforum.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

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