Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

forums.aardvark.co.nz

Aardvark Forums • Index page

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

563 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.aardvark.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 563 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.aardvark.co.nz performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forums.aardvark.co.nz

563 ms

styleswitcher.js

373 ms

forum_fn.js

378 ms

style.php

823 ms

normal.css

394 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Forums.aardvark.co.nz and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Forums.aardvark.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.3 kB (75%)

Content Size

28.4 kB

After Optimization

7.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.aardvark.co.nz main page is 28.4 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 12.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 1.4 kB, which is 11% 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 9.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 37 B

  • Original 396 B
  • After minification 359 B

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. Forums Aardvark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 9.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 858 B

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. Forums.aardvark.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (77%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Aardvark. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forums.aardvark.co.nz accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

Best Practices

forums.aardvark.co.nz 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

SEO Factors

forums.aardvark.co.nz SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Forums.aardvark.co.nz 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 Forums.aardvark.co.nz 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

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