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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

forward.me

Shop USA Stores Tax-Free, Ship Internationally

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

489 ms

Page Rendered

517 ms

forward.me screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Forward content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about forward.me

Forwardme offers the lowest international shipping costs to 220 countries. Ship from your favorite US stores without high prices or long wait periods!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forward.me page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 1 sec 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

forward.me performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forward.me

55 ms

www.forwardme.com

118 ms

f76e28045b39384a.css

59 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

108 ms

6849.924229c858159bc3.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Forward.me, 50% (26 requests) were made to Forwardme.com and 27% (14 requests) were made to Forwardme-next.cdn.prismic.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (325 ms) relates to the external source Images.prismic.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 376.3 kB (46%)

Content Size

809.9 kB

After Optimization

433.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Forward.me main page is 809.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 475.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 375.7 kB

  • Original 475.2 kB
  • After minification 475.1 kB
  • After compression 99.6 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 375.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 593 B

  • Original 334.0 kB
  • After minification 333.4 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. Forward images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (48%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forward. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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55 ms

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118 ms

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108 ms

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139 ms

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138 ms

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92 ms

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40 ms

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main.js

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8 ms

Accessibility Review

forward.me accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Best Practices

forward.me best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

forward.me SEO score

100

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

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 Forward.me 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 Forward.me 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

forward.me

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