Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

forums.watchnet.com

WatchNet: Forums

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.watchnet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 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

forums.watchnet.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forums.watchnet.com

73 ms

forum.css

14 ms

lib.js

24 ms

wnet_logo.gif

91 ms

adjs.php

370 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Forums.watchnet.com, 35% (6 requests) were made to Ad.watchnet.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (448 ms) relates to the external source Ad.watchnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

68.6 kB

After Optimization

40.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.watchnet.com main page is 68.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 22.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 15.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 18.4 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, Forums Watch Net needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 4.0 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Forums.watchnet.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Watch Net. 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

forums.watchnet.com accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forums.watchnet.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

forums.watchnet.com SEO score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forums.watchnet.com 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 Forums.watchnet.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 description is not detected on the main page of Forums Watch Net. 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: