Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

forums.apc.com

APC UPS, Critical Power, Cooling and Racks - Schneider Electric Community

Page Load Speed

22.3 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

22.1 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.apc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 22.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 4 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

forums.apc.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,340 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forums.apc.com

25 ms

forums.apc.com

16 ms

critical-power-cooling-racks

2052 ms

otSDKStub.js

45 ms

schneider_skin.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Forums.apc.com, 50% (23 requests) were made to Community.se.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Download.schneider-electric.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.9 kB (34%)

Content Size

561.8 kB

After Optimization

370.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.apc.com main page is 561.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 319.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 189.5 kB

  • Original 236.5 kB
  • After minification 224.3 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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 189.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 704 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 1.7 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 APC needs image optimization as it can save up to 704 B or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 319.2 kB
  • After minification 319.2 kB
  • After compression 317.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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.apc.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (59%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums APC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forums.apc.com accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

forums.apc.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

forums.apc.com SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forums.apc.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 Forums.apc.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 data is detected on the main page of Forums APC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: