Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

565 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

177 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Belfastforum.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 565 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

belfastforum.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.php

565 ms

index.css

10 ms

responsive.css

18 ms

script.js

17 ms

theme.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Belfastforum.co.uk, 12% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (565 ms) belongs to the original domain Belfastforum.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.9 kB (48%)

Content Size

318.4 kB

After Optimization

166.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Belfastforum.co.uk main page is 318.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 166.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 23.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 48.5 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. Belfast Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 166.7 kB
  • After minification 154.2 kB
  • After compression 94.0 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 72.7 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 46.4 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Belfastforum.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (58%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Belfast 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

belfastforum.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Belfastforum.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Belfastforum.co.uk 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 Belfast 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: