Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

tamu.scout.com

Aggies Digest - Texas A&M Football, Basketball, Recruiting, News, Rumors & Forums - Scout

Page Load Speed

21 sec in total

First Response

544 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

14.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tamu.scout.com page load time and found that the first response time was 544 ms and then it took 20.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tamu.scout.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value63.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value127,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value152.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

544 ms

420.css

955 ms

bundle.css

998 ms

homepageWrapper.css

997 ms

homepage.css

995 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Tamu.scout.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 5% (3 requests) were made to 247sports.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source At.cbsi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.7 kB (35%)

Content Size

814.4 kB

After Optimization

525.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Tamu.scout.com main page is 814.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 423.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 219.9 kB

  • Original 267.4 kB
  • After minification 265.7 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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 219.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 423.0 kB
  • After minification 416.2 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. Tamu Scout images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 124.0 kB
  • After minification 123.9 kB
  • After compression 62.0 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 62.0 kB or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (48%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tamu Scout. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tamu.scout.com accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

tamu.scout.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

tamu.scout.com SEO score

98

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

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 Tamu.scout.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 Tamu.scout.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 data is detected on the main page of Tamu Scout. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: