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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

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Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

358 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wholesaleforum.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 358 ms and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wholesaleforum.co.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wholesaleforum.co.uk

358 ms

www.wholesaleforum.com

127 ms

4 ms

3357 ms

gtm.js

323 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wholesaleforum.co.uk, 60% (44 requests) were made to Wholesaleforum.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Wholesaleforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.7 kB (40%)

Content Size

579.7 kB

After Optimization

348.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wholesaleforum.co.uk main page is 579.7 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. Javascripts take 253.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 176.9 kB

  • Original 201.3 kB
  • After minification 157.8 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 43.5 kB, which is 22% 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 176.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 99.2 kB
  • After minification 95.0 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. Wholesaleforum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 253.7 kB
  • After minification 253.3 kB
  • After compression 211.3 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 42.4 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. Wholesaleforum.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (56%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wholesaleforum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wholesaleforum.co.uk

wholesaleforum.co.uk

358 ms

www.wholesaleforum.com

www.wholesaleforum.com

127 ms

4 ms

3357 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

323 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

yuiloader-dom-event.js

242 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

253 ms

vbulletin-core.js

vbulletin-core.js

529 ms

css.php

css.php

860 ms

jquery-1.2.1.pack.js

jquery-1.2.1.pack.js

373 ms

css.php

css.php

809 ms

animation-min.js

animation-min.js

225 ms

vbulletin-sidebar.js

vbulletin-sidebar.js

373 ms

css.php

css.php

788 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

521 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

348 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

541 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

350 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

413 ms

set_social_media_links.js

set_social_media_links.js

412 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

410 ms

wmcaudit.js

wmcaudit.js

412 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

150 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

86 ms

203 ms

collect

collect

72 ms

collect

collect

261 ms

collect

collect

268 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

792 ms

image-3934974-10379076

image-3934974-10379076

804 ms

welcome.gif

welcome.gif

352 ms

header.gif

header.gif

342 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

351 ms

navtab.gif

navtab.gif

337 ms

search-input.gif

search-input.gif

349 ms

search-go.gif

search-go.gif

349 ms

skyscraper.gif

skyscraper.gif

354 ms

banner-wd.gif

banner-wd.gif

348 ms

shopify1.png

shopify1.png

352 ms

welcometo-2.gif

welcometo-2.gif

351 ms

wfc-2.gif

wfc-2.gif

352 ms

findw.gif

findw.gif

350 ms

tradebuy.gif

tradebuy.gif

625 ms

collapse_40b.png

collapse_40b.png

624 ms

forum_old-48.png

forum_old-48.png

625 ms

lastpost-right.png

lastpost-right.png

630 ms

forum_new-48.png

forum_new-48.png

623 ms

esourcesnew_468x60_1.gif

esourcesnew_468x60_1.gif

629 ms

cron.php

cron.php

1038 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

634 ms

bat.js

bat.js

756 ms

stat.js

stat.js

733 ms

signup.png

signup.png

599 ms

social_media.png

social_media.png

598 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

555 ms

wd-banner.png

wd-banner.png

305 ms

shopify2.PNG

shopify2.PNG

306 ms

PBanner1_full.jpg

PBanner1_full.jpg

306 ms

world3.gif

world3.gif

430 ms

lworld2-2.gif

lworld2-2.gif

431 ms

rworld2-2.gif

rworld2-2.gif

430 ms

whos_online.gif

whos_online.gif

212 ms

stats.gif

stats.gif

194 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

220 ms

wf_footer.png

wf_footer.png

219 ms

111 ms

10379076-1613593263459

10379076-1613593263459

247 ms

5140533.js

5140533.js

66 ms

25 ms

5140533

5140533

47 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

44 ms

c.gif

c.gif

39 ms

Accessibility Review

wholesaleforum.co.uk accessibility score

67

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

wholesaleforum.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

wholesaleforum.co.uk SEO score

71

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wholesaleforum.co.uk 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 Wholesaleforum.co.uk 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

wholesaleforum.co.uk

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