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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

theeforum.org

The Entrepreneur Forum (The eForum) | Formerly known as The MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

741 ms

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About Website

Visit theeforum.org now to see the best up-to-date The EForum content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theeforum.org

Our new name reflects our status as an independent non-profit and our membership with the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theeforum.org page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theeforum.org performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theeforum.org

248 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

155 ms

select2.min.css

161 ms

iconfonts.css

162 ms

frontend.min.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Theeforum.org, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (777 ms) belongs to the original domain Theeforum.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theeforum.org main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 101.8 kB

  • Original 123.6 kB
  • After minification 118.5 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 101.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. The EForum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 209.7 kB
  • After minification 209.3 kB
  • After compression 192.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 142.0 kB
  • After minification 141.9 kB
  • After compression 137.9 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. Theeforum.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (69%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The EForum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theeforum.org

theeforum.org

248 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

155 ms

select2.min.css

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161 ms

iconfonts.css

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162 ms

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170 ms

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150 ms

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264 ms

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242 ms

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639 ms

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637 ms

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643 ms

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frontend.js

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699 ms

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597 ms

Accessibility Review

theeforum.org 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

theeforum.org best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

theeforum.org SEO score

85

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theeforum.org 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 Theeforum.org 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

theeforum.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The EForum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: