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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

bostondirtdogs.boston.com

Dirt Dogs | Boston Red Sox stats, analysis, game summaries, and mlb trade rumors

Page Load Speed

16.9 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

10.8 sec

Page Rendered

5.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostondirtdogs.boston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 16.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostondirtdogs.boston.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostondirtdogs.boston.com

248 ms

bcom_dirtdogs_styles.css

27 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

280 ms

bcom-dfp.js

154 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Bostondirtdogs.boston.com, 38% (28 requests) were made to Cache.boston.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Tpc.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

865.2 kB

After Optimization

803.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostondirtdogs.boston.com main page is 865.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 712.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 67.9 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 29.5 kB, which is 43% 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 55.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 886 B

  • Original 712.9 kB
  • After minification 712.0 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. Boston Dirt Dogs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 80.6 kB
  • After minification 80.5 kB
  • After compression 75.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Bostondirtdogs.boston.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (49%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Dirt Dogs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bostondirtdogs.boston.com

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248 ms

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27 ms

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280 ms

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154 ms

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153 ms

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154 ms

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27 ms

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152 ms

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126 ms

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227 ms

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27 ms

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248 ms

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166 ms

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Accessibility Review

bostondirtdogs.boston.com accessibility score

83

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

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

Best Practices

bostondirtdogs.boston.com best practices score

50

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bostondirtdogs.boston.com SEO score

54

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bostondirtdogs.boston.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 Bostondirtdogs.boston.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

bostondirtdogs.boston.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Boston Dirt Dogs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: