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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

bimmerboard.com

BimmerBoard BMW Forums and the world's best online BMW community. Sharing the knowledge!

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

430 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

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BimmerBoard is an online community for BMW owners and enthusiasts. On BimmerBoard, you'll find technical how-to articles and information for all BMW models, expert advice for repairs, maintenance, mod...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bimmerboard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 430 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bimmerboard.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bimmerboard.com

430 ms

bimmerboard.css

22 ms

show_ads.js

71 ms

bblogo_598x129.jpg

20 ms

e81.jpg

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Bimmerboard.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (430 ms) belongs to the original domain Bimmerboard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

404.0 kB

After Optimization

366.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bimmerboard.com main page is 404.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 252.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 37.2 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 30.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 113.9 kB
  • After minification 107.5 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. Bimmer Board images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 33 B

  • Original 252.7 kB
  • After minification 252.7 kB
  • After compression 252.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 41 B

  • Original 165 B
  • After minification 165 B
  • After compression 124 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. Bimmerboard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41 B or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bimmer Board. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

bimmerboard.com

bimmerboard.com

430 ms

bimmerboard.css

bimmerboard.css

22 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

71 ms

bblogo_598x129.jpg

bblogo_598x129.jpg

20 ms

e81.jpg

e81.jpg

22 ms

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e90.jpg

22 ms

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e60.jpg

22 ms

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e63.jpg

24 ms

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e65.jpg

23 ms

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e83.jpg

389 ms

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e70.jpg

22 ms

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e71.jpg

23 ms

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e85.jpg

23 ms

mini.jpg

mini.jpg

24 ms

f01.jpg

f01.jpg

23 ms

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e21.jpg

25 ms

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e30.jpg

20 ms

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e36.jpg

20 ms

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e46.jpg

22 ms

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20 ms

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20 ms

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22 ms

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21 ms

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23 ms

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22 ms

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25 ms

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24 ms

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22 ms

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e53.jpg

25 ms

z3.jpg

z3.jpg

24 ms

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24 ms

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e9.jpg

26 ms

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e3.jpg

25 ms

2002.jpg

2002.jpg

26 ms

make_a_donation.gif

make_a_donation.gif

26 ms

twitter_18x18.png

twitter_18x18.png

26 ms

facebook_18x18.png

facebook_18x18.png

27 ms

myspace_18x18.png

myspace_18x18.png

26 ms

advertise_here.jpg

advertise_here.jpg

20 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

125 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

373 ms

Accessibility Review

bimmerboard.com accessibility score

73

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

bimmerboard.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bimmerboard.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bimmerboard.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 Bimmerboard.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

bimmerboard.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bimmer Board. 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: