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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

pistol-forum.com

pistol-forum.com

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pistol-forum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 2.5 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

pistol-forum.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pistol-forum.com

129 ms

pistol-forum.com

727 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

73 ms

vbulletin-core.js

126 ms

css.php

364 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Pistol-forum.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (727 ms) belongs to the original domain Pistol-forum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.0 kB (58%)

Content Size

548.1 kB

After Optimization

231.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pistol-forum.com main page is 548.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 190.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 87.0 kB

  • Original 99.7 kB
  • After minification 89.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.6 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 87.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 105.8 kB
  • After minification 86.9 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. Obviously, Pistol Forum needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.9 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 190.6 kB
  • After minification 189.5 kB
  • After compression 108.6 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 82.0 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 129.0 kB

  • Original 152.0 kB
  • After minification 116.8 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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. Pistol-forum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (67%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pistol 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pistol-forum.com

pistol-forum.com

129 ms

pistol-forum.com

pistol-forum.com

727 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

yuiloader-dom-event.js

73 ms

vbulletin-core.js

vbulletin-core.js

126 ms

css.php

css.php

364 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

99 ms

css.php

css.php

640 ms

css.php

css.php

630 ms

css.php

css.php

636 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

138 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

36 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

13 ms

topBarBG.gif

topBarBG.gif

49 ms

loginButton.gif

loginButton.gif

65 ms

forum.png

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64 ms

search.png

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64 ms

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63 ms

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63 ms

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122 ms

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127 ms

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125 ms

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126 ms

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subforum_link-48.png

127 ms

forum_stats.png

forum_stats.png

125 ms

footerLogo.png

footerLogo.png

128 ms

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regSplit.gif

123 ms

loginBoxInput.gif

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124 ms

headerBG.gif

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119 ms

bannerBox.gif

bannerBox.gif

119 ms

navBG.gif

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120 ms

navSplit.gif

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133 ms

arrow.png

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133 ms

contentBG.gif

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134 ms

contentWrapBG.gif

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134 ms

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153 ms

bcLeft.gif

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153 ms

bcRight.gif

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158 ms

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ca-pub-1059643155657546.js

22 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

98 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

48 ms

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tcatLeft.gif

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128 ms

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131 ms

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162 ms

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162 ms

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163 ms

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163 ms

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163 ms

gradient-greytowhite.png

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142 ms

ads

ads

305 ms

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124 ms

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126 ms

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backTopBG_left.gif

127 ms

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128 ms

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128 ms

footerBG.gif

footerBG.gif

130 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

81 ms

osd.js

osd.js

24 ms

ads

ads

285 ms

ads

ads

265 ms

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12 ms

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40 ms

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53 ms

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css

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105 ms

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36 ms

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34 ms

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4 ms

favicon

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57 ms

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19 ms

ui

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39 ms

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57 ms

Accessibility Review

pistol-forum.com accessibility score

61

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

pistol-forum.com 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

pistol-forum.com SEO score

75

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 Pistol-forum.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 Pistol-forum.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

pistol-forum.com

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