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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

costadelsolforum.com

Costa del Sol forum - talk to expats, residents and holidaymakers in the Malaga province of Spain

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

227 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

894 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Costadelsolforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 227 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

costadelsolforum.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.236

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

costadelsolforum.com

227 ms

www.costadelsolforum.com

709 ms

gtm.js

56 ms

analytics.js

26 ms

global-v178.css

205 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Costadelsolforum.com, 16% (13 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 15% (12 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (755 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 637.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Costadelsolforum.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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 139.4 kB

  • Original 168.8 kB
  • After minification 168.8 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 139.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 518.8 kB
  • After minification 506.2 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. Costa Del Sol Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 485.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 634.5 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 485.9 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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. Costadelsolforum.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (52%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Costa Del Sol 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

costadelsolforum.com

costadelsolforum.com

227 ms

www.costadelsolforum.com

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709 ms

gtm.js

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56 ms

analytics.js

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26 ms

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205 ms

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41 ms

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204 ms

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199 ms

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201 ms

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142 ms

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15 ms

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4 ms

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4 ms

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551 ms

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226 ms

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322 ms

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211 ms

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211 ms

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39 ms

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549 ms

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453 ms

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444 ms

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367 ms

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472 ms

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755 ms

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25 ms

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Accessibility Review

costadelsolforum.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

costadelsolforum.com best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

costadelsolforum.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Costadelsolforum.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 Costadelsolforum.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

costadelsolforum.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Costa Del Sol Forum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: