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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

racingpost.com

Horse Racing Cards, Results & Betting | Racing Post

Page Load Speed

99.6 sec in total

First Response

825 ms

Resources Loaded

78.3 sec

Page Rendered

20.5 sec

About Website

Visit racingpost.com now to see the best up-to-date Racing Post content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about racingpost.com

Racing Post, the home of horse racing news, cards and results. Get expert racing tips, form and analysis. Explore our jockey, trainer, and horse profiles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Racingpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 825 ms and then it took 98.8 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. Unfortunately, there were 35 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

racingpost.com performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,340 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.025

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.racingpost.com

825 ms

tracker.js

2483 ms

6519066168.js

2864 ms

app.7cf0453da761236f612f068cebb4acfa.min.css

6912 ms

gpt.js

2482 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Racingpost.com, 42% (53 requests) were made to Rp-assets.com and 14% (17 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (22.5 sec) relates to the external source Usage.trackjs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (58%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Racingpost.com main page is 5.2 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 218.0 kB

  • Original 261.3 kB
  • After minification 246.4 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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 218.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 92.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Racing Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 733.7 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 1.9 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 804.7 kB

  • Original 965.7 kB
  • After minification 896.4 kB
  • After compression 161.0 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. Racingpost.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 804.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (39%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Racing Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

racingpost.com accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

racingpost.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

racingpost.com SEO score

91

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

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 Racingpost.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 Racingpost.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 Racing Post. 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: