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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

forums.geteducated.com

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Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

944 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.geteducated.com page load time and found that the first response time was 944 ms and then it took 3.4 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

forums.geteducated.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

944 ms

admin-subscription.css

106 ms

thegem-additional-blog.css

134 ms

style.css

120 ms

thegem-preloader.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Forums.geteducated.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Geteducated.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 339.1 kB (50%)

Content Size

675.4 kB

After Optimization

336.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forums.geteducated.com main page is 675.4 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 362.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 335.2 kB

  • Original 362.9 kB
  • After minification 353.0 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 335.2 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 11.8 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, Forum S Get Educated needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 835 B

  • Original 147.4 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 146.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 315 B

  • Original 150.6 kB
  • After minification 150.6 kB
  • After compression 150.3 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.geteducated.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (92%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum S Get Educated. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

forums.geteducated.com accessibility score

78

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

forums.geteducated.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

forums.geteducated.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

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

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 Forums.geteducated.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.geteducated.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

forums.geteducated.com

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