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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

forexfactory.com

Forex Factory | Forex markets for the smart money.

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

495 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forexfactory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forexfactory.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,110 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.394

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forexfactory.com

23 ms

forexfactory.com

230 ms

www.forexfactory.com

309 ms

gtm.js

54 ms

ff.css

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Forexfactory.com, 52% (50 requests) were made to Resources.faireconomy.media and 36% (35 requests) were made to Assets.faireconomy.media. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) relates to the external source Resources.faireconomy.media.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.9 kB (24%)

Content Size

947.8 kB

After Optimization

717.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forexfactory.com main page is 947.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 390.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 230.1 kB

  • Original 262.0 kB
  • After minification 262.0 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 230.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 173.7 kB
  • After minification 173.7 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. Forex Factory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 791 B

  • Original 390.2 kB
  • After minification 390.2 kB
  • After compression 389.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 121.9 kB
  • After compression 121.9 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. Forexfactory.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (80%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forex Factory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

forexfactory.com accessibility score

87

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

forexfactory.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

forexfactory.com SEO score

73

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forexfactory.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Forexfactory.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 data is detected on the main page of Forex Factory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: