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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

handengravingforum.com

Engraving Forum.com - The Internet's Largest and Fastest Growing Engraving Community - Largest Hand Engraving Community, 5,216 members

Page Load Speed

16.8 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

16.4 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Handengravingforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 16.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

handengravingforum.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.22

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

handengravingforum.com

223 ms

handengravingforum.com

7976 ms

vbulletin_important.css

55 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

83 ms

connection-min.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Handengravingforum.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Engravingforum.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) belongs to the original domain Handengravingforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.8 kB (60%)

Content Size

159.3 kB

After Optimization

63.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Handengravingforum.com main page is 159.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 93.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 29.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 26.1 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. Hand Engraving Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 93.6 kB
  • After minification 91.3 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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 63.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 232 B

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. Handengravingforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (38%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hand Engraving Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

handengravingforum.com

handengravingforum.com

223 ms

handengravingforum.com

handengravingforum.com

7976 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

55 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

83 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

99 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

114 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

130 ms

vbam.js

vbam.js

147 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

161 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

181 ms

JJ%20Roberts%20banner.gif

JJ%20Roberts%20banner.gif

129 ms

lava.gif

lava.gif

56 ms

palmcontrol-banner4.gif

palmcontrol-banner4.gif

72 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

90 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

115 ms

picture.php

picture.php

226 ms

picture.php

picture.php

378 ms

picture.php

picture.php

544 ms

picture.php

picture.php

694 ms

picture.php

picture.php

833 ms

picture.php

picture.php

975 ms

collapse_tcat.gif

collapse_tcat.gif

1038 ms

forum_old.gif

forum_old.gif

1055 ms

icon1.gif

icon1.gif

1073 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

1088 ms

collapse_thead.gif

collapse_thead.gif

1103 ms

stats.gif

stats.gif

1118 ms

forum_new.gif

forum_new.gif

1132 ms

menu_open.gif

menu_open.gif

1121 ms

gradient_tcat.gif

gradient_tcat.gif

1137 ms

gradient_thead.gif

gradient_thead.gif

1152 ms

JJ%20Roberts%20banner.gif

JJ%20Roberts%20banner.gif

7955 ms

Accessibility Review

handengravingforum.com accessibility score

70

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

handengravingforum.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

handengravingforum.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Handengravingforum.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 Handengravingforum.com 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

handengravingforum.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hand Engraving 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: