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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

thebbqforum.com

The World Famous BBQ Forum Since 1995 serving the Barbecue World

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

122 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebbqforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebbqforum.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.134

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebbqforum.com

104 ms

thebbqforum.com

62 ms

logo75.png

102 ms

poll.cgi

56 ms

embed.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Thebbqforum.com, 32% (15 requests) were made to Cdn.websitetoolbox.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Trustedsite.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

637.8 kB

After Optimization

550.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebbqforum.com main page is 637.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 308.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 3.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 81.2 kB

  • Original 308.4 kB
  • After minification 227.2 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, The BBQ Forum needs image optimization as it can save up to 81.2 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 163.7 kB
  • After minification 163.7 kB
  • After compression 161.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 408 B

  • Original 160.3 kB
  • After minification 160.3 kB
  • After compression 159.9 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. Thebbqforum.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The BBQ 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thebbqforum.com

thebbqforum.com

104 ms

thebbqforum.com

thebbqforum.com

62 ms

logo75.png

logo75.png

102 ms

poll.cgi

poll.cgi

56 ms

embed.js

embed.js

58 ms

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1.js

49 ms

joes.jpg

joes.jpg

104 ms

oakridge.jpg

oakridge.jpg

124 ms

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slabs.jpg

102 ms

primo.jpg

primo.jpg

170 ms

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rufus2.jpg

170 ms

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hwg300.jpg

31 ms

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JCoBWjzCXVA

158 ms

rayb.discussion.community

rayb.discussion.community

528 ms

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client.json

593 ms

client.json

client.json

601 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

8 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

31 ms

base.js

base.js

66 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

230 ms

EirmVnnNlSgqRyHN1YLvHhRw11SWUqUPb76JYHphonQ.js

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171 ms

embed.js

embed.js

65 ms

jquery.min-1.11.2.js

jquery.min-1.11.2.js

103 ms

bootstrap.min-3.1.1.js

bootstrap.min-3.1.1.js

105 ms

moment-2.18.1.js

moment-2.18.1.js

105 ms

tinymce.min-4.7.9.js

tinymce.min-4.7.9.js

233 ms

i18next_global.js

i18next_global.js

103 ms

forum1_global.js

forum1_global.js

340 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

233 ms

elegance2.css

elegance2.css

239 ms

forum1_global.css

forum1_global.css

255 ms

iframeResizer.contentWindow.custom.min-4.2.10.js

iframeResizer.contentWindow.custom.min-4.2.10.js

250 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

75 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

213 ms

id

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252 ms

Create

Create

254 ms

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1001 ms

200.jpg

200.jpg

327 ms

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762 ms

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759 ms

R-G-Kamado-BBQ.jpg

R-G-Kamado-BBQ.jpg

763 ms

forum1.ttf

forum1.ttf

489 ms

prev.png

prev.png

271 ms

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next.png

269 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

269 ms

close.png

close.png

267 ms

visit

visit

270 ms

Accessibility Review

thebbqforum.com accessibility score

54

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

thebbqforum.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thebbqforum.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebbqforum.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 Thebbqforum.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

thebbqforum.com

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