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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

metaldetectingforum.com

Friendly Metal Detecting Forum

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

312 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metaldetectingforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 312 ms and then it took 2.9 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

metaldetectingforum.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metaldetectingforum.com

312 ms

vbulletin_important.css

40 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

80 ms

connection-min.js

78 ms

vbulletin_global.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Metaldetectingforum.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (828 ms) belongs to the original domain Metaldetectingforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.3 kB (72%)

Content Size

98.6 kB

After Optimization

27.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metaldetectingforum.com main page is 98.6 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. HTML takes 81.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 81.7 kB
  • After minification 77.5 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 68.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 912 B

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 14.4 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. Metal Detecting Forum images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.4 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. Metaldetectingforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (38%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metal Detecting 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metaldetectingforum.com

metaldetectingforum.com

312 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

40 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

80 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

78 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

89 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

88 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

88 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

87 ms

stats2.php

stats2.php

828 ms

friendlyforum.gif

friendlyforum.gif

130 ms

metaldetectors.jpg

metaldetectors.jpg

129 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

116 ms

menu_open.gif

menu_open.gif

116 ms

subforum_old.gif

subforum_old.gif

116 ms

collapse_tcat.gif

collapse_tcat.gif

115 ms

forum_old.gif

forum_old.gif

116 ms

icon1.gif

icon1.gif

116 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

116 ms

icon7.gif

icon7.gif

115 ms

icon4.gif

icon4.gif

116 ms

subforum_old.gif

subforum_old.gif

116 ms

icon10.gif

icon10.gif

116 ms

collapse_thead.gif

collapse_thead.gif

116 ms

whos_online.gif

whos_online.gif

115 ms

stats.gif

stats.gif

138 ms

birthday.gif

birthday.gif

157 ms

forum_new.gif

forum_new.gif

153 ms

Accessibility Review

metaldetectingforum.com accessibility score

76

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

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

metaldetectingforum.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

metaldetectingforum.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Metaldetectingforum.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 Metaldetectingforum.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Metal Detecting 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: