Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

smith-wessonforum.com

Smith & Wesson Forum

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

648 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

smith-wessonforum.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smith-wessonforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 648 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smith-wessonforum.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,820 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smith-wessonforum.com

648 ms

vbulletin_important.css

9 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

23 ms

connection-min.js

30 ms

vbulletin_global.js

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Smith-wessonforum.com, 10% (12 requests) were made to Cdn.intermarkets.net and 10% (12 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Smith-wessonforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

987.3 kB

After Optimization

620.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Smith-wessonforum.com main page is 987.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 410.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 158.5 kB

  • Original 187.1 kB
  • After minification 182.0 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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 158.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 388.3 kB
  • After minification 388.3 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. Smith Wesson Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 207.0 kB

  • Original 410.2 kB
  • After minification 388.7 kB
  • After compression 203.3 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 207.0 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.5 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. Smith-wessonforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (82%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smith Wesson 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 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smith-wessonforum.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

smith-wessonforum.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

Serves images with low resolution

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

smith-wessonforum.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

    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 Smith-wessonforum.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 Smith-wessonforum.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 Smith Wesson 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: