Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 40

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

alpha-sports.com

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

759 ms

Page Rendered

341 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alpha-sports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alpha-sports.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alpha-sports.com

194 ms

alpha-sports.css

66 ms

jquery-1.2.6.min.js

130 ms

usearch.js

67 ms

xaramenu.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Alpha-sports.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Images.scanalert.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (333 ms) belongs to the original domain Alpha-sports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Alpha-sports.com main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 964.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 7.2 kB, which is 18% 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 31.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 964.2 kB
  • After minification 957.1 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. Alpha Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 55.1 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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 55.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 682 B

  • Original 958 B
  • After minification 643 B
  • After compression 276 B

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. Alpha-sports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 682 B or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (47%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alpha Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alpha-sports.com accessibility score

40

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alpha-sports.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alpha-sports.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Alpha-sports.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 Alpha-sports.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alpha Sports. 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: