Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

ronpaulforums.com

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Page Load Speed

110.8 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

68.7 sec

Page Rendered

42 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ronpaulforums.com page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 110.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 13 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

ronpaulforums.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ronpaulforums.com

133 ms

content.php

585 ms

loader.js

76 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

811 ms

connection-min.js

958 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Ronpaulforums.com, 8% (10 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.6 sec) relates to the external source Rtb.openx.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (59%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ronpaulforums.com main page is 3.1 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 167.6 kB

  • Original 201.4 kB
  • After minification 191.3 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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 167.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 655.6 kB
  • After minification 643.8 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. Ron Paul Forums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 888.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 470.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 888.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 762.6 kB

  • Original 906.8 kB
  • After minification 806.3 kB
  • After compression 144.2 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. Ronpaulforums.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 762.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (51%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ron Paul Forums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ronpaulforums.com accessibility score

63

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ronpaulforums.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ronpaulforums.com SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ronpaulforums.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ronpaulforums.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ron Paul Forums. 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: