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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

forums-free.com

forums-free.com

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

265 ms

Resources Loaded

877 ms

Page Rendered

112 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums-free.com page load time and found that the first response time was 265 ms and then it took 989 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums-free.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

265 ms

process.php

40 ms

thickbox-min.css

71 ms

round-button-min-process.css

69 ms

prototype-min.js

205 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Forums-free.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Static-files-01.forums-free.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (265 ms) belongs to the original domain Forums-free.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.5 kB (39%)

Content Size

223.8 kB

After Optimization

136.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forums-free.com main page is 223.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 96.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 14.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 90.1 kB
  • After minification 87.0 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 Free images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 96.1 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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 55.8 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 18.4 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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-free.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (47%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Free. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

265 ms

process.php

process.php

40 ms

thickbox-min.css

thickbox-min.css

71 ms

round-button-min-process.css

round-button-min-process.css

69 ms

prototype-min.js

prototype-min.js

205 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

69 ms

jquery-1.2.6-min.js

jquery-1.2.6-min.js

126 ms

thickbox-min-8954.js

thickbox-min-8954.js

72 ms

logo_full.png

logo_full.png

70 ms

ico_battery_more.gif

ico_battery_more.gif

96 ms

ico_storage_more.gif

ico_storage_more.gif

97 ms

ico_themes.gif

ico_themes.gif

108 ms

ico_chat.gif

ico_chat.gif

107 ms

ico_portal.gif

ico_portal.gif

109 ms

ico_smiley.gif

ico_smiley.gif

132 ms

ico_palette.gif

ico_palette.gif

134 ms

ico_add.gif

ico_add.gif

149 ms

screen_button-forum-en.gif

screen_button-forum-en.gif

144 ms

screen_button-portal-en.gif

screen_button-portal-en.gif

147 ms

screen_button-chat.gif

screen_button-chat.gif

160 ms

screen_button-smiley.gif

screen_button-smiley.gif

166 ms

header-en.png

header-en.png

140 ms

nav_bar.gif

nav_bar.gif

123 ms

nav_div.gif

nav_div.gif

126 ms

nav_bg.gif

nav_bg.gif

127 ms

ui_rounded_circle_n.gif

ui_rounded_circle_n.gif

136 ms

ui_rounded_circle_s.gif

ui_rounded_circle_s.gif

149 ms

footer_bottom_circle_n.gif

footer_bottom_circle_n.gif

202 ms

date_bg_small.gif

date_bg_small.gif

202 ms

arrow_white.gif

arrow_white.gif

202 ms

footer_circle_s.gif

footer_circle_s.gif

203 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

loading_thickbox.gif

loading_thickbox.gif

38 ms

Accessibility Review

forums-free.com accessibility score

75

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

forums-free.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

forums-free.com SEO score

85

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

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-free.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-free.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forums Free. 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: