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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

forum.alchemyforums.com

Alchemy Forums

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

819 ms

Page Rendered

146 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forum.alchemyforums.com page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 965 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forum.alchemyforums.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forum.alchemyforums.com

247 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

52 ms

connection-min.js

28 ms

vbulletin-core.js

59 ms

css.php

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Forum.alchemyforums.com, 16% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (327 ms) belongs to the original domain Forum.alchemyforums.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 328.5 kB (62%)

Content Size

533.0 kB

After Optimization

204.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forum.alchemyforums.com main page is 533.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 239.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 30.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 50.9 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 71.0 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, Forum Alchemy Forums needs image optimization as it can save up to 50.9 kB or 42% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 134.0 kB

  • Original 239.4 kB
  • After minification 235.8 kB
  • After compression 105.4 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 134.0 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 113.0 kB

  • Original 132.3 kB
  • After minification 98.7 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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. Forum.alchemyforums.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (32%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Alchemy Forums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forum.alchemyforums.com

forum.alchemyforums.com

247 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

yuiloader-dom-event.js

52 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

28 ms

vbulletin-core.js

vbulletin-core.js

59 ms

css.php

css.php

195 ms

css.php

css.php

170 ms

vbulletin_overlay.js

vbulletin_overlay.js

36 ms

vbulletin_cms.js

vbulletin_cms.js

63 ms

vbulletin_ajax_htmlloader.js

vbulletin_ajax_htmlloader.js

62 ms

css.php

css.php

174 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

76 ms

treeview-min.js

treeview-min.js

87 ms

vbulletin_lightbox.js

vbulletin_lightbox.js

86 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

170 ms

aflogoblur.jpg

aflogoblur.jpg

97 ms

cse.js

cse.js

25 ms

treeview.css

treeview.css

62 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

158 ms

gradient-grey-down.png

gradient-grey-down.png

59 ms

newbtn_middle.png

newbtn_middle.png

60 ms

selected-tab-gradient-with-top-alpha.png

selected-tab-gradient-with-top-alpha.png

69 ms

search.png

search.png

60 ms

navbit-home.png

navbit-home.png

85 ms

navbit-arrow-right.png

navbit-arrow-right.png

103 ms

sections.png

sections.png

102 ms

widget-forum.png

widget-forum.png

112 ms

rss_40b.png

rss_40b.png

101 ms

profile.png

profile.png

104 ms

forum.png

forum.png

103 ms

blog.png

blog.png

138 ms

homepage.png

homepage.png

138 ms

article.png

article.png

140 ms

wink.png

wink.png

136 ms

cool.png

cool.png

137 ms

image.php

image.php

257 ms

lastpost-right.png

lastpost-right.png

160 ms

image.php

image.php

261 ms

image.php

image.php

261 ms

image.php

image.php

260 ms

image.php

image.php

256 ms

cron.php

cron.php

327 ms

cse.js

cse.js

99 ms

top-highlight.png

top-highlight.png

211 ms

gradient-black-down.png

gradient-black-down.png

211 ms

jsapi

jsapi

54 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

4 ms

default.css

default.css

33 ms

default+en.I.js

default+en.I.js

12 ms

default.css

default.css

29 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

33 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

27 ms

small-logo.png

small-logo.png

27 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

27 ms

nav_logo114.png

nav_logo114.png

22 ms

treeview-sprite.gif

treeview-sprite.gif

15 ms

treeview-loading.gif

treeview-loading.gif

27 ms

Accessibility Review

forum.alchemyforums.com accessibility score

69

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forum.alchemyforums.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

forum.alchemyforums.com SEO score

67

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

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 Forum.alchemyforums.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 Forum.alchemyforums.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

forum.alchemyforums.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forum Alchemy Forums. 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: