Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

forum.alzheimers.org.uk

Dementia Support Forum

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

462 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

214 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forum.alzheimers.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 462 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

forum.alzheimers.org.uk performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forum.alzheimers.org.uk

462 ms

combo

12 ms

vbulletin-core.js

327 ms

main-rollup.css

332 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Forum.alzheimers.org.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to 4708646.fls.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (462 ms) belongs to the original domain Forum.alzheimers.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.2 kB (65%)

Content Size

415.3 kB

After Optimization

147.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Forum.alzheimers.org.uk main page is 415.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 141.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 88.4 kB

  • Original 101.6 kB
  • After minification 92.2 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 88.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 57.4 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, Forum Alzheimers needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.9 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 141.1 kB
  • After minification 140.0 kB
  • After compression 59.0 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 82.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 75.9 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 91.8 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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.alzheimers.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (68%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Alzheimers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forum.alzheimers.org.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forum.alzheimers.org.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

forum.alzheimers.org.uk SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Forum.alzheimers.org.uk 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.alzheimers.org.uk 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 Forum Alzheimers. 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: