Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

accsports.com

ACC Recruiting and Insider News - ACCSports.com

Page Load Speed

39.2 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

21.8 sec

Page Rendered

14.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing ACCSports content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about accsports.com

Recruiting, rumors and insider news for every team in the ACC. Home of the ACC Sports Journal. Recruiting, rankings and polls for all teams.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Accsports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 36.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

accsports.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

accsports.com

3007 ms

analytics.js

1119 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

592 ms

css

3694 ms

style.css

1334 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Accsports.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Code.ionicframework.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Accsports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (50%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Accsports.com main page is 5.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 87.1 kB

  • Original 101.7 kB
  • After minification 80.9 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.8 kB, which is 20% 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 87.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 969.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Obviously, ACCSports needs image optimization as it can save up to 969.1 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 811.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 957.5 kB
  • After compression 310.2 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 811.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 892.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 964.2 kB
  • After compression 146.0 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. Accsports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 892.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (68%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACCSports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

accsports.com accessibility score

77

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

accsports.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

accsports.com SEO score

93

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 Accsports.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 Accsports.com main page’s claimed encoding is ”utf-8″. 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 data is detected on the main page of ACCSports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: