Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

oddballupdate.com

Oddball Update

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

Welcome to oddballupdate.com homepage info - get ready to check Oddball Update best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about oddballupdate.com

Chief Oddball is writing code, tinkering with things, and spewing verbal excess about where life takes him.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oddballupdate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oddballupdate.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oddballupdate.com

1151 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

140 ms

style.min.css

141 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

145 ms

css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Oddballupdate.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Oddballupdate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 323.1 kB (53%)

Content Size

615.3 kB

After Optimization

292.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Oddballupdate.com main page is 615.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 322.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 48.0 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 36.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 187.7 kB
  • After minification 169.6 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. Oddball Update images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 221.7 kB

  • Original 322.4 kB
  • After minification 320.2 kB
  • After compression 100.7 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 221.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Oddballupdate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (60%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oddball Update. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

oddballupdate.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

oddballupdate.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

oddballupdate.com SEO score

76

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Oddballupdate.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 Oddballupdate.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

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