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baseballforum.com

Baseball Forum

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

144 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baseballforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baseballforum.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

baseballforum.com

136 ms

www.baseballforum.com

627 ms

amzn_ads.js

7 ms

style-3b7852e8-00041.css

116 ms

vbulletin_important.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Baseballforum.com, 10% (16 requests) were made to Ib.adnxs.com and 8% (12 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Api.viglink.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 709.9 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

635.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Baseballforum.com main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 869.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 105.4 kB

  • Original 133.8 kB
  • After minification 127.1 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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 105.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 183.8 kB
  • After minification 167.8 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. Baseball Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 460.0 kB

  • Original 869.6 kB
  • After minification 856.7 kB
  • After compression 409.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 460.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 128.6 kB

  • Original 158.5 kB
  • After minification 135.2 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. Baseballforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 128.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 119 (82%)

Requests Now

145

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 145 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baseball 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 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

baseballforum.com SEO score

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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 Baseballforum.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 Baseballforum.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 Baseball Forum. 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: