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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

theweldingforum.com

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Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theweldingforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 167 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

theweldingforum.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theweldingforum.com

167 ms

theweldingforum.com

422 ms

forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com

587 ms

font-awesome.min.css

69 ms

stylesheet.css

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Theweldingforum.com, 59% (30 requests) were made to Forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com and 25% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (587 ms) relates to the external source Forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 147.7 kB (55%)

Content Size

267.8 kB

After Optimization

120.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theweldingforum.com main page is 267.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 100.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 46.1 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 11.9 kB, which is 21% 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 49.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 27.1 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.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 93.5 kB
  • After compression 59.0 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 41.9 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 81.8 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Theweldingforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (91%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Welding 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theweldingforum.com

theweldingforum.com

167 ms

theweldingforum.com

theweldingforum.com

422 ms

forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com

forum.weldingtipsandtricks.com

587 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

69 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

134 ms

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css2

31 ms

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52 ms

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53 ms

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54 ms

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54 ms

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56 ms

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topfive.css

187 ms

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239 ms

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248 ms

core.js

core.js

250 ms

tooltipster.main.min.js

tooltipster.main.min.js

252 ms

phpbb-themes_slideshow.js

phpbb-themes_slideshow.js

201 ms

phpbb-themes_switcher.js

phpbb-themes_switcher.js

247 ms

forum_fn.js

forum_fn.js

266 ms

ajax.js

ajax.js

304 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

182 ms

base.css

base.css

180 ms

utilities.css

utilities.css

186 ms

common.css

common.css

189 ms

links.css

links.css

200 ms

content.css

content.css

236 ms

buttons.css

buttons.css

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cp.css

cp.css

243 ms

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forms.css

253 ms

icons.css

icons.css

253 ms

colours.css

colours.css

262 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

300 ms

elemental_core.css

elemental_core.css

310 ms

elemental_vars.css

elemental_vars.css

306 ms

elemental_responsive.css

elemental_responsive.css

316 ms

elemental_custom_thewelding.css

elemental_custom_thewelding.css

320 ms

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secondary-dark.css

125 ms

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Accessibility Review

theweldingforum.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Best Practices

theweldingforum.com best practices score

83

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

theweldingforum.com SEO score

83

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theweldingforum.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 Theweldingforum.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

theweldingforum.com

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