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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

techforum.com

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Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

232 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

techforum.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 232 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

techforum.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

techforum.com

232 ms

style.css

131 ms

slideshow.css

130 ms

lightbox.css

133 ms

dd_menu.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Techforum.com, 15% (10 requests) were made to O.twimg.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (741 ms) belongs to the original domain Techforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

841.1 kB

After Optimization

666.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Techforum.com main page is 841.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 664.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 12.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 664.8 kB
  • After minification 627.0 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. Tech Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 109.9 kB
  • After minification 93.4 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 82.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 50.1 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Techforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (50%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tech 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

techforum.com

techforum.com

232 ms

style.css

style.css

131 ms

slideshow.css

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130 ms

lightbox.css

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133 ms

dd_menu.js

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136 ms

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145 ms

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142 ms

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145 ms

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145 ms

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401 ms

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194 ms

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263 ms

index_right_top.gif

index_right_top.gif

276 ms

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277 ms

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277 ms

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478 ms

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400 ms

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402 ms

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670 ms

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controller-last.gif

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20 ms

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Accessibility Review

techforum.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Best Practices

techforum.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

techforum.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Techforum.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Techforum.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

techforum.com

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