Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

outdoorchannel.com

Outdoor Channel - Outdoor Channel

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

257 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

617 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Outdoorchannel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 257 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

outdoorchannel.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.326

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

outdoorchannel.com

257 ms

style.css

185 ms

style_wci.css

151 ms

modernizr.custom.js

151 ms

buttons.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Outdoorchannel.com, 10% (15 requests) were made to Media.outdoorchannel.com and 8% (13 requests) were made to Adserver.adtechus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.turn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (45%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Outdoorchannel.com main page is 2.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 98.5 kB
  • After minification 87.9 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 10.6 kB, which is 11% 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 76.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 964.8 kB
  • After minification 932.4 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. Outdoor Channel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 902.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 349.7 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 902.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 69.5 kB

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. Outdoorchannel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (54%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Outdoor Channel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

outdoorchannel.com accessibility score

83

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

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

outdoorchannel.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

SEO Factors

outdoorchannel.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Outdoorchannel.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Outdoorchannel.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 Outdoor Channel. 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: