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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

forum.postcrossing.com

Postcrossing (Legacy) Forum

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forum.postcrossing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 218 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 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forum.postcrossing.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.275

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forum.postcrossing.com

218 ms

forum.postcrossing.com

551 ms

theme.css

287 ms

header.js

312 ms

script.js

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Forum.postcrossing.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Analytics.postcrossing.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (919 ms) belongs to the original domain Forum.postcrossing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.1 kB (63%)

Content Size

123.4 kB

After Optimization

45.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forum.postcrossing.com main page is 123.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 81.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 69.6 kB

  • Original 81.1 kB
  • After minification 80.8 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 69.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 27.4 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 Postcrossing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 8.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 83 B
  • After minification 57 B
  • After compression 57 B

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.postcrossing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26 B or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (60%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Postcrossing. 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

forum.postcrossing.com

forum.postcrossing.com

218 ms

forum.postcrossing.com

forum.postcrossing.com

551 ms

theme.css

theme.css

287 ms

header.js

header.js

312 ms

script.js

script.js

372 ms

brand

brand

20 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

14 ms

postcrossing_logo_new.png

postcrossing_logo_new.png

394 ms

top_search.gif

top_search.gif

301 ms

top_faq.gif

top_faq.gif

314 ms

top_todaysposts.gif

top_todaysposts.gif

348 ms

top_stats.gif

top_stats.gif

338 ms

top_bbrules.gif

top_bbrules.gif

354 ms

star.gif

star.gif

592 ms

group_link.png

group_link.png

578 ms

folder_heart.png

folder_heart.png

635 ms

top_home.gif

top_home.gif

644 ms

arrow_dw.gif

arrow_dw.gif

631 ms

folder.gif

folder.gif

690 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

876 ms

red_folder.gif

red_folder.gif

876 ms

arrow_up.gif

arrow_up.gif

919 ms

branding.png

branding.png

41 ms

Accessibility Review

forum.postcrossing.com accessibility score

76

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

forum.postcrossing.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

forum.postcrossing.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Forum.postcrossing.com 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 Forum.postcrossing.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

forum.postcrossing.com

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