Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

forum.ipoh.com.my

Ipoh Community Forums

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

653 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forum.ipoh.com.my page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Forum.ipoh.com.my rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

forum.ipoh.com.my performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forum.ipoh.com.my

1699 ms

vbulletin_global.js

797 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

796 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

fadeslideshow.js

1367 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Forum.ipoh.com.my, 31% (12 requests) were made to Ipoh.com.my and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Ipoh.com.my.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.6 kB (47%)

Content Size

399.7 kB

After Optimization

211.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Forum.ipoh.com.my main page is 399.7 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. Images take 182.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 128.6 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 137.9 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 128.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 182.8 kB
  • After minification 182.8 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. Forum Ipoh images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 60.0 kB

  • Original 72.4 kB
  • After minification 41.0 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 60.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (11%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum Ipoh. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forum.ipoh.com.my accessibility score

84

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

forum.ipoh.com.my best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

forum.ipoh.com.my SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Forum.ipoh.com.my 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 Forum.ipoh.com.my 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 Forum Ipoh. 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: