Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

gpforums.co.nz

GP Forums - New Zealand's video gaming community

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

486 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

435 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gpforums.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 486 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gpforums.co.nz performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gpforums.co.nz

486 ms

www.gpforums.co.nz

881 ms

css.php

99 ms

css

23 ms

fonts.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Gpforums.co.nz, 40% (49 requests) were made to Forums.nz.gpncdn.com and 15% (18 requests) were made to Img.nz.gpncdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Forums.nz.gpncdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Gpforums.co.nz main page is 2.6 MB. 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. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 114.9 kB
  • After minification 100.8 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.0 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 97.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 92.2 kB

  • Original 988.3 kB
  • After minification 896.1 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. GP Forums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 724.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 350.8 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 724.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 340.7 kB

  • Original 402.4 kB
  • After minification 343.7 kB
  • After compression 61.7 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. Gpforums.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 340.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (61%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GP Forums. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gpforums.co.nz accessibility score

61

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

gpforums.co.nz best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gpforums.co.nz SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gpforums.co.nz 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 Gpforums.co.nz 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

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