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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

forum.pcstats.com

PCSTATS - PC Hardware Reviews and Guides - Get The 'Stats and Stay Informed!

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

589 ms

Page Rendered

424 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forum.pcstats.com page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forum.pcstats.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.16

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forum.pcstats.com

14 ms

forum.pcstats.com

22 ms

www.pcstats.com

38 ms

styles.css

7 ms

cse.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Forum.pcstats.com, 76% (41 requests) were made to Pcstats.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (305 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 147.4 kB (25%)

Content Size

588.2 kB

After Optimization

440.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forum.pcstats.com main page is 588.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 250.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 109.5 kB

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 114.1 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.6 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 109.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 442 B

  • Original 250.1 kB
  • After minification 249.7 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 PCSTATS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 964 B

  • Original 162.0 kB
  • After minification 162.0 kB
  • After compression 161.1 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

-77%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Forum.pcstats.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (43%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forum PCSTATS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forum.pcstats.com

forum.pcstats.com

14 ms

forum.pcstats.com

forum.pcstats.com

22 ms

www.pcstats.com

www.pcstats.com

38 ms

styles.css

styles.css

7 ms

cse.js

cse.js

64 ms

pcstats_top_logo_big.gif

pcstats_top_logo_big.gif

18 ms

transdot.gif

transdot.gif

28 ms

arrow_orange4.gif

arrow_orange4.gif

33 ms

1_pix.gif

1_pix.gif

28 ms

lead_recovery.jpg

lead_recovery.jpg

37 ms

tea_flashdatarecover.jpg

tea_flashdatarecover.jpg

27 ms

greylinevert.gif

greylinevert.gif

28 ms

tea_killingpcs.jpg

tea_killingpcs.jpg

38 ms

tea_gigabytefactory.jpg

tea_gigabytefactory.jpg

38 ms

tea_t530lcd.jpg

tea_t530lcd.jpg

38 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

86 ms

js

js

89 ms

ttj

ttj

56 ms

bg_menu_fade_short.jpg

bg_menu_fade_short.jpg

28 ms

newsletter_su_bg.jpg

newsletter_su_bg.jpg

28 ms

newssilver.gif

newssilver.gif

30 ms

v3pctats_75T.gif

v3pctats_75T.gif

32 ms

NewsSilver.gif

NewsSilver.gif

32 ms

news_nav_dots.gif

news_nav_dots.gif

33 ms

lead_muzetto.jpg

lead_muzetto.jpg

33 ms

lead_install2011.jpg

lead_install2011.jpg

36 ms

arrow_orange.gif

arrow_orange.gif

33 ms

rssxml.gif

rssxml.gif

43 ms

tea_kingstonsv30024.jpg

tea_kingstonsv30024.jpg

34 ms

franking-gray.gif

franking-gray.gif

35 ms

tea_seagatebuplus.jpg

tea_seagatebuplus.jpg

36 ms

tea_muzetto.jpg

tea_muzetto.jpg

38 ms

tea_install2011.jpg

tea_install2011.jpg

38 ms

tea_99tipsarticle.jpg

tea_99tipsarticle.jpg

38 ms

tea_99vistatips.jpg

tea_99vistatips.jpg

38 ms

tea_msftice.jpg

tea_msftice.jpg

41 ms

tea_samsativ.jpg

tea_samsativ.jpg

40 ms

guidespromo.gif

guidespromo.gif

41 ms

250x500_promo.gif

250x500_promo.gif

39 ms

top_logo_new.gif

top_logo_new.gif

41 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

27 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

69 ms

default.css

default.css

73 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

305 ms

field_bg_req.gif

field_bg_req.gif

197 ms

sync

sync

204 ms

bg_title.gif

bg_title.gif

152 ms

gradient_grey.gif

gradient_grey.gif

153 ms

dots_white.gif

dots_white.gif

154 ms

tower_brwn.gif

tower_brwn.gif

155 ms

250x500_promo.gif

250x500_promo.gif

153 ms

bg_header_fade.jpg

bg_header_fade.jpg

154 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

56 ms

clear.png

clear.png

37 ms

Accessibility Review

forum.pcstats.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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forum.pcstats.com best practices score

50

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

forum.pcstats.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forum.pcstats.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Forum.pcstats.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

forum.pcstats.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forum PCSTATS. 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: