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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

taoforums.com

TAOForums

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

819 ms

Page Rendered

114 ms

taoforums.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing TAOForums content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about taoforums.com

A forum for Tactics Arena Online (TAO) is a turn based strategy game played online from 2003-2016.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taoforums.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 933 ms 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

taoforums.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taoforums.com

168 ms

forum.php

143 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

9 ms

vbulletin-core.js

224 ms

main-rollup.css

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Taoforums.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (283 ms) belongs to the original domain Taoforums.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 378.5 kB (84%)

Content Size

449.1 kB

After Optimization

70.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taoforums.com main page is 449.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 244.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 31.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-97%

Potential reduce by 236.6 kB

  • Original 244.4 kB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Obviously, TAOForums needs image optimization as it can save up to 236.6 kB or 97% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 87.3 kB
  • After minification 85.7 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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 44.7 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 65.3 kB

  • Original 79.0 kB
  • After minification 77.0 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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. Taoforums.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (79%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TAOForums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

taoforums.com

taoforums.com

168 ms

forum.php

forum.php

143 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

yuiloader-dom-event.js

9 ms

vbulletin-core.js

vbulletin-core.js

224 ms

main-rollup.css

main-rollup.css

283 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

239 ms

forumhome-rollup.css

forumhome-rollup.css

239 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

238 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

5 ms

gradient-grey-down.png

gradient-grey-down.png

54 ms

vbulletin4_logo.png

vbulletin4_logo.png

156 ms

search.png

search.png

56 ms

navbit-home.png

navbit-home.png

55 ms

collapse_40b.png

collapse_40b.png

56 ms

forum_old_lock-48.png

forum_old_lock-48.png

57 ms

icon1.png

icon1.png

107 ms

lastpost-right.png

lastpost-right.png

111 ms

users_online.png

users_online.png

114 ms

forum_stats.png

forum_stats.png

110 ms

legend.png

legend.png

110 ms

forum_new-16.png

forum_new-16.png

159 ms

forum_old-16.png

forum_old-16.png

161 ms

forum_lock-16.png

forum_lock-16.png

164 ms

category-16.png

category-16.png

164 ms

forum_link-16.png

forum_link-16.png

167 ms

newbtn_middle.png

newbtn_middle.png

168 ms

selected-tab-gradient-with-top-alpha.png

selected-tab-gradient-with-top-alpha.png

173 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

174 ms

grey-up.png

grey-up.png

174 ms

rss_40b.png

rss_40b.png

176 ms

gradient-greytowhite.png

gradient-greytowhite.png

179 ms

Accessibility Review

taoforums.com accessibility score

58

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

taoforums.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

taoforums.com SEO score

92

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

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 Taoforums.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 Taoforums.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

taoforums.com

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