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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

early-retirement.com

Early Retirement & Financial Independence Community

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

393 ms

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About Website

Visit early-retirement.com now to see the best up-to-date Early Retirement content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about early-retirement.com

An online community to exchange knowledge about FIRE (Financial Independence and Early Retirement), discussing all aspects of early retirement including planning, challenges, rewards, expense manageme...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Early-retirement.com page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

early-retirement.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value36,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value50.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

early-retirement.com

213 ms

www.early-retirement.org

370 ms

gtm.js

200 ms

ads.min.js

277 ms

vbulletin_important.css

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Early-retirement.com, 72% (34 requests) were made to Early-retirement.org and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (421 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.1 kB (50%)

Content Size

147.0 kB

After Optimization

72.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Early-retirement.com main page is 147.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 90.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 72.3 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 85.8 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 72.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Early Retirement images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 51.5 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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

-62%

Potential reduce by 384 B

  • Original 616 B
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 232 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. Early-retirement.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 384 B or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (76%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Early Retirement. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

early-retirement.com

early-retirement.com

213 ms

www.early-retirement.org

www.early-retirement.org

370 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

200 ms

ads.min.js

ads.min.js

277 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

134 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

251 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

256 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

166 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

167 ms

ncode_imageresizer.js

ncode_imageresizer.js

166 ms

menu.js

menu.js

165 ms

external.php

external.php

246 ms

page_bg.gif

page_bg.gif

98 ms

community_logo_badge.gif

community_logo_badge.gif

167 ms

header_bg.gif

header_bg.gif

97 ms

earlyretirement_logo1.gif

earlyretirement_logo1.gif

93 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

95 ms

button_search.gif

button_search.gif

94 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

99 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

97 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

96 ms

collapse_tcat.gif

collapse_tcat.gif

89 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

90 ms

earlyretirement_logo2.gif

earlyretirement_logo2.gif

89 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

421 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

416 ms

js

js

191 ms

navbarbox_gradient.gif

navbarbox_gradient.gif

354 ms

searchbox_tl.gif

searchbox_tl.gif

340 ms

searchbox_tr.gif

searchbox_tr.gif

340 ms

searchbox_bl.gif

searchbox_bl.gif

341 ms

searchbox_br.gif

searchbox_br.gif

339 ms

google_box.jpg

google_box.jpg

339 ms

gradient_tcat.gif

gradient_tcat.gif

414 ms

menu_open.gif

menu_open.gif

354 ms

tcat_tl.gif

tcat_tl.gif

328 ms

tcat_tr.gif

tcat_tr.gif

328 ms

gradient_thead.gif

gradient_thead.gif

328 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

330 ms

gradient_alt3.gif

gradient_alt3.gif

334 ms

footer_bg.gif

footer_bg.gif

333 ms

bullet_footerlinks.gif

bullet_footerlinks.gif

333 ms

invisible.js

invisible.js

95 ms

identity.js

identity.js

53 ms

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351301425239951

53 ms

collect

collect

72 ms

collect

collect

64 ms

Accessibility Review

early-retirement.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

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

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.

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

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

early-retirement.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

early-retirement.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Early-retirement.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Early-retirement.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

early-retirement.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Early Retirement. 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: