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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

sportscardforum.com

Sports Card Forum - A Sports Card Community

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

28 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

489 ms

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About Website

Visit sportscardforum.com now to see the best up-to-date Sports Card Forum content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sportscardforum.com

SportsCardForum is your source for everything related to sports cards for collectors and non-collectors alike!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportscardforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 28 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sportscardforum.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sportscardforum.com

28 ms

sportscardforum.com

141 ms

www.sportscardforum.com

868 ms

icon

56 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Sportscardforum.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (868 ms) belongs to the original domain Sportscardforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 367.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sportscardforum.com main page is 2.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 182.2 kB

  • Original 209.0 kB
  • After minification 188.9 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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 182.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 141.7 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB

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. Sports Card Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 187.6 kB
  • After minification 187.5 kB
  • After compression 145.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 42.6 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 912 B

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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. Sportscardforum.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (65%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sports Card 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sportscardforum.com

sportscardforum.com

28 ms

sportscardforum.com

sportscardforum.com

141 ms

www.sportscardforum.com

www.sportscardforum.com

868 ms

icon

icon

56 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

yuiloader-dom-event.js

46 ms

vbulletin-core.js

vbulletin-core.js

38 ms

vbulletin-english-hotlink-family.js

vbulletin-english-hotlink-family.js

39 ms

main-rollup.css

main-rollup.css

37 ms

manip_affiliate.css

manip_affiliate.css

37 ms

js

js

78 ms

css

css

79 ms

css

css

80 ms

sportscardforum.com.js

sportscardforum.com.js

204 ms

tabcontent.css

tabcontent.css

49 ms

tabcontent.js

tabcontent.js

48 ms

epn-smart-tools.js

epn-smart-tools.js

265 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

48 ms

forumhome-rollup.css

forumhome-rollup.css

47 ms

sidebar.css

sidebar.css

46 ms

widgets.css

widgets.css

48 ms

tagcloud.css

tagcloud.css

57 ms

additional.css

additional.css

58 ms

scf_trade.css

scf_trade.css

73 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

58 ms

element.js

element.js

62 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

6 ms

vglnk.js

vglnk.js

38 ms

js

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37 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

loader.min.js

loader.min.js

77 ms

collect

collect

49 ms

animation-min.js

animation-min.js

4 ms

ads.min.js

ads.min.js

117 ms

advertising.js

advertising.js

78 ms

logo.png

logo.png

23 ms

sci-banner2.png

sci-banner2.png

28 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

22 ms

search.png

search.png

22 ms

forum_old_lock-48.png

forum_old_lock-48.png

21 ms

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22 ms

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lastpost-right.png

28 ms

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isagrading-logo.png

303 ms

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35 ms

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sportscardmarket_logo2.png

31 ms

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27 ms

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icon1.png

73 ms

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72 ms

sportscardmarket_logo.png

sportscardmarket_logo.png

71 ms

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153 ms

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147 ms

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73 ms

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75 ms

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forum_stats.png

75 ms

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76 ms

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77 ms

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75 ms

auctionchampions_logo.png

auctionchampions_logo.png

77 ms

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77 ms

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77 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

105 ms

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106 ms

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107 ms

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105 ms

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86 ms

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86 ms

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80 ms

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80 ms

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43 ms

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54 ms

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33 ms

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27 ms

54776x_xchat.js

54776x_xchat.js

83 ms

dropzone.js

dropzone.js

61 ms

dropzone.css

dropzone.css

72 ms

vglnk.js

vglnk.js

2 ms

Accessibility Review

sportscardforum.com accessibility score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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>).

High

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

Best Practices

sportscardforum.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sportscardforum.com SEO score

80

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sportscardforum.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 Sportscardforum.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

sportscardforum.com

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