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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

volvoforums.org.uk

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Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

539 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Volvo Forums content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about volvoforums.org.uk

Volvo Forums, a place to discuss all Volvo cars. Provided by the Volvo Owners Club for the enjoyment and help for all Volvo enthusiasts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Volvoforums.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 539 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

volvoforums.org.uk performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

volvoforums.org.uk

539 ms

www.volvoforums.org.uk

1408 ms

style-23d06511-00001.css

400 ms

vbulletin_important.css

407 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

560 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Volvoforums.org.uk, 12% (4 requests) were made to Volvoclub.org.uk and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Volvoforums.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.5 kB (62%)

Content Size

353.1 kB

After Optimization

135.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Volvoforums.org.uk main page is 353.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 159.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 140.5 kB

  • Original 159.3 kB
  • After minification 155.2 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 140.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 64.8 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. Volvo Forums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 111.4 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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 62.9 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Volvoforums.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (41%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Volvo Forums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

volvoforums.org.uk

volvoforums.org.uk

539 ms

www.volvoforums.org.uk

www.volvoforums.org.uk

1408 ms

style-23d06511-00001.css

style-23d06511-00001.css

400 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

407 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

560 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

410 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

569 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

747 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

743 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

582 ms

1x1blind.gif

1x1blind.gif

927 ms

header_image.jpg

header_image.jpg

510 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

445 ms

collapse_tcat.gif

collapse_tcat.gif

446 ms

forum_old_lock.gif

forum_old_lock.gif

446 ms

subforum_old.gif

subforum_old.gif

445 ms

icon1.gif

icon1.gif

379 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

733 ms

icon2.gif

icon2.gif

714 ms

collapse_thead.gif

collapse_thead.gif

749 ms

calendar.gif

calendar.gif

719 ms

whos_online.gif

whos_online.gif

790 ms

stats.gif

stats.gif

849 ms

forum_new.gif

forum_new.gif

1035 ms

forum_old.gif

forum_old.gif

1084 ms

adrianflux2.gif

adrianflux2.gif

860 ms

menu_open.gif

menu_open.gif

944 ms

gradient_thead.gif

gradient_thead.gif

830 ms

gradient_tcat.gif

gradient_tcat.gif

893 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

collect

collect

19 ms

adrianflux2.gif

adrianflux2.gif

448 ms

1x1blind.gif

1x1blind.gif

475 ms

Accessibility Review

volvoforums.org.uk accessibility score

75

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

volvoforums.org.uk 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

volvoforums.org.uk SEO score

62

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Volvoforums.org.uk 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 Volvoforums.org.uk 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

volvoforums.org.uk

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