Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

latechbbb.com

Bulldog Barks & Bytes

Page Load Speed

21.8 sec in total

First Response

797 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Latechbbb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 797 ms and then it took 21 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

latechbbb.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.115

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

latechbbb.com

797 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

150 ms

connection-min.js

88 ms

vbulletin-core.js

158 ms

css.php

259 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Latechbbb.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Vortex.accuweather.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Oap.accuweather.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.5 sec) relates to the external source Accuweather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 419.7 kB (64%)

Content Size

659.6 kB

After Optimization

239.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Latechbbb.com main page is 659.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 253.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 32.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 138.4 kB
  • After minification 117.0 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. Obviously, Latechbbb needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.4 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 166.9 kB

  • Original 253.6 kB
  • After minification 252.4 kB
  • After compression 86.6 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 166.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 199.2 kB

  • Original 227.4 kB
  • After minification 201.9 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. Latechbbb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Latechbbb. 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.

Accessibility Review

latechbbb.com accessibility score

66

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

latechbbb.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

latechbbb.com SEO score

73

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Latechbbb.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 Latechbbb.com 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

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