Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

excelforum.com

Excel Help Forum

Page Load Speed

188 ms in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

145 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

excelforum.com screenshot

About Website

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Excel Help and Support from Excel Experts( MVPs). Excel2003,Excel 2007, Excel 2010 What's New in Excel and Excel Tips and Tutorials.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Excelforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 145 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

excelforum.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

excelforum.com

43 ms

excelforum.com

32 ms

v1

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Excelforum.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (68 ms) belongs to the original domain Excelforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 879.4 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

635.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Excelforum.com main page is 1.5 MB. This result falls within a big category (top 100 000) of medium weight web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 8.9 kB or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 160.5 kB
  • After minification 142.7 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. Obviously, Excel Forum needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 644.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 440.9 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 644.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 208.2 kB

  • Original 253.8 kB
  • After minification 238.6 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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. Excelforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 208.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Excel Forum. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

excelforum.com accessibility score

80

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.

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

Best Practices

excelforum.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

excelforum.com SEO score

95

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 Excelforum.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 Excelforum.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 description is not detected on the main page of Excel 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: