Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

glocktalk.com

Glock Talk

Page Load Speed

99 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

77.5 sec

Page Rendered

20 sec

glocktalk.com screenshot

About Website

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A forum community dedicated to Glock firearm owners and enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about optics, gunsmithing, styles, reviews, troubleshooting...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glocktalk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 97.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glocktalk.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.glocktalk.com

1492 ms

css.php

568 ms

css.php

618 ms

css

3006 ms

font-awesome.min.css

3295 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Glocktalk.com, 5% (8 requests) were made to Beacon.krxd.net and 4% (6 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18.9 sec) relates to the external source Ssl-cdn.carbontv.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (27%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Glocktalk.com main page is 8.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 161.1 kB

  • Original 191.3 kB
  • After minification 167.9 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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 23.4 kB, which is 12% 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 161.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 132.7 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Glock Talk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 1.5 MB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 391.6 kB

  • Original 465.4 kB
  • After minification 397.6 kB
  • After compression 73.9 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. Glocktalk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 391.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (55%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glock Talk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glocktalk.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

glocktalk.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

glocktalk.com SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 uses 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 Glocktalk.com 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 Glocktalk.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Glock Talk. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: