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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

thescienceforum.com

thescienceforum.com - thescienceforum Resources and Information.

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thescienceforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 2 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

thescienceforum.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thescienceforum.com

195 ms

www.thescienceforum.com

558 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

28 ms

vbulletin-core.js

250 ms

vlatex.js

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Thescienceforum.com, 21% (10 requests) were made to S3.buysellads.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (558 ms) belongs to the original domain Thescienceforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 271.5 kB (59%)

Content Size

461.4 kB

After Optimization

189.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thescienceforum.com main page is 461.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 144.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 100.1 kB

  • Original 115.3 kB
  • After minification 93.5 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.8 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 100.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 111.0 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. Obviously, Thescienceforum needs image optimization as it can save up to 33.5 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 54.8 kB

  • Original 99.5 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 44.7 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 54.8 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 100.1 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. Thescienceforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (57%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thescienceforum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thescienceforum.com

thescienceforum.com

195 ms

www.thescienceforum.com

www.thescienceforum.com

558 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

yuiloader-dom-event.js

28 ms

vbulletin-core.js

vbulletin-core.js

250 ms

vlatex.js

vlatex.js

125 ms

main-rollup.css

main-rollup.css

309 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

125 ms

forumhome-rollup.css

forumhome-rollup.css

190 ms

additional.css

additional.css

128 ms

pod_vlatex.css

pod_vlatex.css

186 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

186 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

10 ms

counter.js

counter.js

7 ms

bg_tile.gif

bg_tile.gif

77 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

75 ms

search.png

search.png

75 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

76 ms

tcat_left.gif

tcat_left.gif

77 ms

collapse_40b.png

collapse_40b.png

76 ms

forum_old-48.png

forum_old-48.png

125 ms

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lastpost-right.png

128 ms

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subforum_link-48.png

137 ms

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icon5.png

136 ms

icon3.png

icon3.png

138 ms

whos_online.gif

whos_online.gif

139 ms

birthday.gif

birthday.gif

187 ms

stats.gif

stats.gif

188 ms

forum_new-48.png

forum_new-48.png

188 ms

category_forum_new.png

category_forum_new.png

189 ms

forum_link-48.png

forum_link-48.png

190 ms

cron.php

cron.php

360 ms

bsa.js

bsa.js

39 ms

catbg.gif

catbg.gif

202 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

201 ms

gradient_thead.gif

gradient_thead.gif

202 ms

rss_40b.png

rss_40b.png

205 ms

s_4818256697e2f820f3e012a9cdeabc4f.js

s_4818256697e2f820f3e012a9cdeabc4f.js

7 ms

t.php

t.php

59 ms

pro.js

pro.js

3 ms

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285 ms

Accessibility Review

thescienceforum.com accessibility score

56

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

thescienceforum.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thescienceforum.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thescienceforum.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Thescienceforum.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

thescienceforum.com

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