Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

baseballessential.com

Baseball Essential - MLB News, Rumors & Features

Page Load Speed

19.7 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

18.2 sec

Page Rendered

430 ms

baseballessential.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baseballessential.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 18.6 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

baseballessential.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.449

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.baseballessential.com

1088 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

62 ms

styles.css

40 ms

prettyPhoto.css

57 ms

settings.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 437 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Baseballessential.com, 5% (24 requests) were made to Bh.contextweb.com and 5% (20 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.1 sec) relates to the external source Rtb.adlithium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.8 MB (34%)

Content Size

22.9 MB

After Optimization

15.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Baseballessential.com main page is 22.9 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. Images take 17.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 203.8 kB

  • Original 252.8 kB
  • After minification 235.9 kB
  • After compression 48.9 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. 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 203.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 3.4 MB

  • Original 17.0 MB
  • After minification 13.6 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. Obviously, Baseball Essential needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.4 MB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 2.7 MB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 2.7 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 163.7 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. Baseballessential.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 292 (78%)

Requests Now

372

After Optimization

80

The browser has sent 372 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baseball Essential. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 68 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

baseballessential.com accessibility score

94

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

baseballessential.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

baseballessential.com SEO score

97

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 Baseballessential.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 Baseballessential.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 Baseball Essential. 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: