Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

zeroscrum.com

Rugby news, rumours, player movements, signings and contracts - Zero Scrum

Page Load Speed

11.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

373 ms

zeroscrum.com screenshot

About Website

Visit zeroscrum.com now to see the best up-to-date Zero Scrum content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about zeroscrum.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zeroscrum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 10.7 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

zeroscrum.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,920 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.zeroscrum.com

1146 ms

post-widget.js

96 ms

x29365r5509545

65 ms

analytics.js

58 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

508 ms

Our browser made a total of 213 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Zeroscrum.com, 27% (58 requests) were made to Static.zeroscrum.com and 10% (21 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) relates to the external source Static.zeroscrum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 860.7 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Zeroscrum.com main page is 2.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 74.3 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 106.1 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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 74.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 110.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Zero Scrum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 406.5 kB

  • Original 604.0 kB
  • After minification 573.0 kB
  • After compression 197.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 406.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 269.1 kB

  • Original 322.5 kB
  • After minification 297.8 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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. Zeroscrum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 269.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 98 (49%)

Requests Now

200

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 200 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zero Scrum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

zeroscrum.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

zeroscrum.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

zeroscrum.com SEO score

99

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 Zeroscrum.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 Zeroscrum.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 Zero Scrum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: