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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

semmforum.ca

SEMM Forum Conference | Nov 7-9, 2023 | Toronto, ON

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

522 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

660 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Semmforum.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 522 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

semmforum.ca performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

522 ms

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4 ms

webfontloader.min.js

41 ms

a97cd3eddee166e548814898e7bca1a1.css

60 ms

18ae109ddb2a52e46ea4df31fcf470c4.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Semmforum.ca, 8% (13 requests) were made to and 6% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (522 ms) relates to the external source Brainstorm.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Semmforum.ca main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 155.9 kB

  • Original 186.9 kB
  • After minification 178.9 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 155.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB

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. SEMM Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 94 B

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 81.8 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 172 B

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Semmforum.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (19%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

109

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 134 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SEMM Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

semmforum.ca accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

semmforum.ca 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

semmforum.ca SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Semmforum.ca 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 Semmforum.ca 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 SEMM Forum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: