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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

soapmakingforum.com

Soapmaking Forum - Soap & Candle Forums

Page Load Speed

41.3 sec in total

First Response

335 ms

Resources Loaded

27 sec

Page Rendered

13.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soapmakingforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 40.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soapmakingforum.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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335 ms

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293 ms

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412 ms

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412 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Soapmakingforum.com, 55% (45 requests) were made to Cdn.soapmakingforum.com and 12% (10 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source B.scorecardresearch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soapmakingforum.com main page is 2.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 163.8 kB

  • Original 188.0 kB
  • After minification 182.7 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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 163.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 380.9 kB
  • After minification 370.5 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. Soapmaking Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 618.7 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 1.2 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Soapmakingforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (76%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soapmaking 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 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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335 ms

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293 ms

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Accessibility Review

soapmakingforum.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

soapmakingforum.com 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

SEO Factors

soapmakingforum.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Soapmakingforum.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 Soapmakingforum.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

soapmakingforum.com

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