Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

skeptiforum.org

Nodes of Science – Socially-Networked Science Communication and Outreach

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

657 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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Skepti-Forum is an independent, volunteer-run project for encouraging informative discussion on scientific issues. Our bottom-up community discourse aims to advance scientific reasoning and skepticism...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skeptiforum.org page load time and found that the first response time was 657 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skeptiforum.org performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.284

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skeptiforum.org

657 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

135 ms

styles.css

90 ms

genericons.css

137 ms

jetpack.css

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Skeptiforum.org, 12% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (657 ms) belongs to the original domain Skeptiforum.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 307.7 kB (46%)

Content Size

671.8 kB

After Optimization

364.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Skeptiforum.org main page is 671.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 244.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 44.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 244.5 kB
  • After minification 234.6 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. Skeptiforum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 150.7 kB

  • Original 234.7 kB
  • After minification 231.0 kB
  • After compression 83.9 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 150.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 102.5 kB

  • Original 136.1 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Skeptiforum.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (71%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skeptiforum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

skeptiforum.org accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

skeptiforum.org 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

SEO Factors

skeptiforum.org SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Skeptiforum.org 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 Skeptiforum.org 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 Skeptiforum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: