Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

forums.biggerpockets.com

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Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

764 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.biggerpockets.com page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.biggerpockets.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,620 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forums.biggerpockets.com

23 ms

www.biggerpockets.com

261 ms

application-dd4e7a934b171da2763908030113b3588dbc9402c279ae914d752c182023f051.css

123 ms

tailwind-2f176594ab5bdcb3faa058e9b4630e7e860e2bf8b09a2fdc90d3db66d738cf30.css

79 ms

69-ae2d003a.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Forums.biggerpockets.com, 74% (29 requests) were made to Bpimg.biggerpockets.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Biggerpockets.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (363 ms) relates to the external source Bpimg.biggerpockets.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 146.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Forums.biggerpockets.com main page is 1.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 127.1 kB

  • Original 152.7 kB
  • After minification 152.7 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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 127.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 483 B

  • Original 314.5 kB
  • After minification 314.1 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. Forums Bigger Pockets images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 255 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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

-7%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 270.2 kB
  • After minification 251.3 kB
  • After compression 251.3 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. Forums.biggerpockets.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (47%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Bigger Pockets. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forums.biggerpockets.com accessibility score

78

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

forums.biggerpockets.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

forums.biggerpockets.com SEO score

86

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

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

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 Forums.biggerpockets.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 Forums.biggerpockets.com 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 Forums Bigger Pockets. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: