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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

macrumors.com

MacRumors: Apple News and Rumors

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Apple News and Rumors

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macrumors.com page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

macrumors.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macrumors.com

164 ms

macrumors.com

28 ms

www.macrumors.com

57 ms

chunk-0.css

31 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

277 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Macrumors.com, 30% (19 requests) were made to Images.macrumors.com and 13% (8 requests) were made to Forums.macrumors.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (830 ms) relates to the external source Images.macrumors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 367.6 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

809.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Macrumors.com main page is 1.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 435.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 360.3 kB

  • Original 435.7 kB
  • After minification 435.6 kB
  • After compression 75.4 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. 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 360.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 83 B

  • Original 430.6 kB
  • After minification 430.5 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. Mac Rumors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 295.0 kB
  • After minification 294.9 kB
  • After compression 288.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 284 B

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. Macrumors.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (24%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mac Rumors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

macrumors.com

macrumors.com

164 ms

macrumors.com

macrumors.com

28 ms

www.macrumors.com

www.macrumors.com

57 ms

chunk-0.css

chunk-0.css

31 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

OneSignalSDK.js

277 ms

glide.core.min.css

glide.core.min.css

30 ms

glide.min.js

glide.min.js

36 ms

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723 ms

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112 ms

client-global.js

client-global.js

113 ms

73726X1523000.skimlinks.js

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276 ms

ads.min.js

ads.min.js

322 ms

bg.png

bg.png

631 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

356 ms

Mac-Basics.png

Mac-Basics.png

331 ms

icon-calendar@2x.png

icon-calendar@2x.png

318 ms

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402 ms

macrumors-simple-logo-light.svg

macrumors-simple-logo-light.svg

597 ms

macrumors-simple-logo-dark.svg

macrumors-simple-logo-dark.svg

614 ms

1x1.trans.gif

1x1.trans.gif

619 ms

search.svg

search.svg

620 ms

The-MacRumors-Show-M4-iPads-Thumb-Altley.jpg

The-MacRumors-Show-M4-iPads-Thumb-Altley.jpg

622 ms

Hero0012.jpg

Hero0012.jpg

622 ms

button-tw2020.svg

button-tw2020.svg

617 ms

button-fb2020.svg

button-fb2020.svg

698 ms

quote.svg

quote.svg

702 ms

mrspriteb.png

mrspriteb.png

830 ms

Digital-Photography.png

Digital-Photography.png

365 ms

Notebooks.png

Notebooks.png

419 ms

iPhone-b.png

iPhone-b.png

418 ms

Mac-Pro.png

Mac-Pro.png

564 ms

Apple-Watch.png

Apple-Watch.png

419 ms

Apple-Inc.png

Apple-Inc.png

418 ms

Arm-Macs-c.png

Arm-Macs-c.png

417 ms

icon-ticker@2x.jpg

icon-ticker@2x.jpg

314 ms

px.gif

px.gif

175 ms

px.gif

px.gif

226 ms

124 ms

rid

rid

165 ms

js

js

98 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

235 ms

musickit.js

musickit.js

354 ms

web-embed.js

web-embed.js

190 ms

musickit-components.js

musickit-components.js

370 ms

web-embed.css

web-embed.css

190 ms

maxresdefault.jpg

maxresdefault.jpg

335 ms

page

page

154 ms

link

link

189 ms

loader.js

loader.js

300 ms

collect

collect

104 ms

collect

collect

130 ms

tr5

tr5

7 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

61 ms

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impl.20240502-3-RELEASE.es5.js

71 ms

iPhone-14-Pro-vs-16-Pro-Feature-2.jpg

iPhone-14-Pro-vs-16-Pro-Feature-2.jpg

51 ms

Apple-Event-Let-Loose-Pastel-Green.jpg

Apple-Event-Let-Loose-Pastel-Green.jpg

50 ms

macbook-air-m2-13-inch.jpg

macbook-air-m2-13-inch.jpg

33 ms

Apple-Logo-Cash-Feature-Mint.jpg

Apple-Logo-Cash-Feature-Mint.jpg

33 ms

owc-docks.jpg

owc-docks.jpg

49 ms

ios-17-upcoming-square-1.jpg

ios-17-upcoming-square-1.jpg

65 ms

ios-17-4-sidebar-square.jpg

ios-17-4-sidebar-square.jpg

67 ms

iphone-15-series.jpg

iphone-15-series.jpg

67 ms

sync

sync

30 ms

Accessibility Review

macrumors.com accessibility score

82

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Best Practices

macrumors.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

macrumors.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 Macrumors.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 Macrumors.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

macrumors.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mac Rumors. 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: