Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

linuxquestions.org

LinuxQuestions.org

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

About Website

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LinuxQuestions.org offers a free Linux forum where Linux newbies can ask questions and Linux experts can offer advice. Topics include security, installation, networking and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Linuxquestions.org page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

linuxquestions.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.259

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

linuxquestions.org

105 ms

www.linuxquestions.org

801 ms

vbulletin_important.css

29 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

43 ms

connection-min.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Linuxquestions.org, 13% (17 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 13% (17 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (801 ms) belongs to the original domain Linuxquestions.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

407.3 kB

After Optimization

339.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Linuxquestions.org main page is 407.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 298.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 61.4 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 78.4 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 61.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 30.6 kB
  • After minification 30.6 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. Linux Questions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 298.0 kB
  • After minification 297.6 kB
  • After compression 291.3 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 11 B

  • Original 237 B
  • After minification 237 B
  • After compression 226 B

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. Linuxquestions.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (68%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Linux Questions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

linuxquestions.org accessibility score

83

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

linuxquestions.org 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

linuxquestions.org SEO score

69

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Linuxquestions.org 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 Linuxquestions.org 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 Linux Questions. 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: