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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

community.ig.com

Trading Forum | Join Trading Discussions | IG Community

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

896 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

community.ig.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to community.ig.com homepage info - get ready to check Community IG best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about community.ig.com

Welcome to IG's trading forum. IG Community provides a platform for trading discussions with like-minded traders. Create your live IG account and join the discussions now.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Community.ig.com page load time and found that the first response time was 896 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

community.ig.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,750 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

community.ig.com

896 ms

ig_custom_skin-439108329.css

1050 ms

lia-scripts-head-min.js

374 ms

index.min.js

613 ms

s_code_core.js

445 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Community.ig.com, 61% (17 requests) were made to Idmud79558.i.lithium.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Idmud79558.i.lithium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 591.6 kB (70%)

Content Size

847.8 kB

After Optimization

256.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Community.ig.com main page is 847.8 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 586.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 160.8 kB

  • Original 202.1 kB
  • After minification 189.5 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 160.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 785 B

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 58.6 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. Community IG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 430.0 kB

  • Original 586.4 kB
  • After minification 585.8 kB
  • After compression 156.3 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 430.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Community IG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

community.ig.com

community.ig.com

896 ms

ig_custom_skin-439108329.css

ig_custom_skin-439108329.css

1050 ms

lia-scripts-head-min.js

lia-scripts-head-min.js

374 ms

index.min.js

index.min.js

613 ms

s_code_core.js

s_code_core.js

445 ms

sitecatalyst_load.js

sitecatalyst_load.js

272 ms

lia-scripts-common-min.js

lia-scripts-common-min.js

390 ms

lia-scripts-body-min.js

lia-scripts-body-min.js

474 ms

resize

resize

292 ms

profile

profile

352 ms

header_bg.jpg

header_bg.jpg

159 ms

sprite_uk_logo.png

sprite_uk_logo.png

159 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

371 ms

icon_help.svg

icon_help.svg

156 ms

icon_board.png

icon_board.png

160 ms

message_has_image.svg

message_has_image.svg

288 ms

message_has_url.svg

message_has_url.svg

159 ms

50x50

50x50

321 ms

button_lithium_logo.png

button_lithium_logo.png

160 ms

button_lithium_logo.png

button_lithium_logo.png

281 ms

flags.png

flags.png

129 ms

social.png

social.png

128 ms

schema_image.png

schema_image.png

131 ms

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68 ms

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68 ms

vjs.woff

vjs.woff

130 ms

108 ms

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s91287664086557

11 ms

Accessibility Review

community.ig.com accessibility score

75

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.

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

community.ig.com 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

community.ig.com SEO score

90

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

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 Community.ig.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 Community.ig.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

community.ig.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Community IG. 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: