Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

microforum.ca

Microforum

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

392 ms

microforum.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Microforum.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

microforum.ca performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

microforum.ca

240 ms

general.css

131 ms

catalog.css

88 ms

jquery.min.js

274 ms

action.js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Microforum.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Commondatastorage.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (565 ms) belongs to the original domain Microforum.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 325.3 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

831.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Microforum.ca main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 984.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. 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 54.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 210.3 kB

  • Original 984.2 kB
  • After minification 773.9 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, Microforum needs image optimization as it can save up to 210.3 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 95.8 kB
  • After minification 95.8 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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 51.6 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Microforum.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (7%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Microforum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

microforum.ca accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

microforum.ca 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

microforum.ca SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Microforum.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Microforum.ca 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 Microforum. 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: