Kaskus.us: The Biggest Indonesian Forum
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This is Huuya.com's review and result of Kaskus.us website, the biggest Indonesian discussion forum website ranked as no 249 Alexa Traffic Rank and no 6 Alexa Country Traffic Rank.
The Kaskus.us website got the honor to be reviewed first by Huuya.com before Huuya.com continues to review and check other Indonesian websites. How did the website perform against the good web standards? Huuya.com gave it a score of 597. Here's why.
The Details
The (X)HTML, CSS and Web Accessibility
With the W3C Validator's settings of automatic encoding and document type, the website did not conform well to the valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional rules it used. The report snapshot on the left showed that its homepage had 174 ERRORS and 6 warnings! Kaskus.us got a score of O point for this.
After checking out Kaskus.us with the W3C CSS Validator, we found out that it did not perform well in conforming to the CSS rules. There were 2 ERRORS and 279 warnings needed to be fixed. Because of those 2 errors, we gave a score of 80 to Kaskus.us website.
WAVE, a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind), checked Kaskus.us website for its accessibility conformance. It detected 24 ERRORS! There were many alerts too. Because of the errors, Kaskus.us got another O point, just like its XHTML result.
The Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug
From the snapshot, you can see that Google Page Speed checked and gave a score of 85/100 to Kaskus.us website. The Google Page Speed identified that, among many warnings, Kaskus.us website had scripts needed to be combined, images that the dimensions needed to be specified, and images that need to be combined in CSS sprites. Overall, its CSS conformance was not that bad. Score: 85.
The Yahoo! YSlow checked Kaskus.us website and gave an overall performance of Grade B. This is due to the many HTTP requests the Kaskus.us performed to pull all the data before presented to its forum users. The website used 14 JavaScripts, 3 external style sheets, and 8 external background images for its homepage! Those resources came from more than 4 (sub)domains. No wonder Yahoo! YSlow complained about it. See it yourself. The website got so many distracting advertisements. Yahoo! Yslow gave a score of 81 points for this.
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