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forums.travel.com

Default Web Site Page

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

390 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

403 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.travel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 390 ms and then it took 2.1 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

forums.travel.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

forums.travel.com

390 ms

vb-header.css

112 ms

combo

15 ms

vbulletin-core.js

108 ms

main-rollup.css

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Forums.travel.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (470 ms) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.4 kB (64%)

Content Size

296.9 kB

After Optimization

105.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.travel.com main page is 296.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 131.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 42.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 751 B

  • Original 13.3 kB
  • After minification 12.6 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. Forums Travel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 67.8 kB

  • Original 131.2 kB
  • After minification 128.7 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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 67.8 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 98.5 kB
  • After minification 95.3 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. Forums.travel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (77%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Travel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

forums.travel.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 Forums.travel.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 Forums.travel.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 Forums Travel. 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: