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gowforum.net

GoWForum - Gears eSports News & Community

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

377 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

931 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gowforum.net page load time and found that the first response time was 377 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gowforum.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.php

377 ms

css.php

337 ms

css.php

219 ms

css.php

316 ms

font-awesome.min.css

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Gowforum.net, 21% (18 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 12% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Gowforum.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

393.8 kB

After Optimization

299.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Gowforum.net main page is 393.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 282.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 70.2 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 80.9 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. 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 70.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 282.3 kB
  • After minification 275.3 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. GoW Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 137 B

  • Original 329 B
  • After minification 231 B
  • After compression 192 B

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 137 B or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Gowforum.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (42%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GoW Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gowforum.net SEO score

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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 Gowforum.net 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 Gowforum.net 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 GoW Forum. 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: