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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

automotiveforums.com

Automotive Forums .com - Car Chat Forum - Connecting the Auto Enthusiasts

Page Load Speed

25.7 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

25.4 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Automotiveforums.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 25.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number 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

automotiveforums.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,170 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

automotiveforums.com

143 ms

automotiveforums.com

2124 ms

all_CSS_combined.css

328 ms

guestforum.js

399 ms

brand

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 167 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Automotiveforums.com, 12% (20 requests) were made to Staticaf.com and 10% (17 requests) were made to Assets.alicdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Dyson.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Automotiveforums.com main page is 2.3 MB. 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 a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 71.7 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.8 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 62.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 30.1 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. Automotive Forums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 984.0 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 1.0 MB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 102.8 kB

  • Original 162.9 kB
  • After minification 162.7 kB
  • After compression 60.1 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. Automotiveforums.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (38%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

82

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Automotive 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

automotiveforums.com accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

automotiveforums.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

automotiveforums.com SEO score

71

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Automotiveforums.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 Automotiveforums.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Automotive 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: