Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

boatracingfacts.com

Boat Racing Facts ~ Boat Racing Forum & Community

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

703 ms

boatracingfacts.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Boat Racing Facts content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about boatracingfacts.com

Boat Racing Facts is an online power boat discussion forum for all things related to powerboat racing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boatracingfacts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 123 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boatracingfacts.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boatracingfacts.com

123 ms

index.php

502 ms

combo

763 ms

vbulletin-core.js

89 ms

css.php

299 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Boatracingfacts.com, 14% (21 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net and 8% (13 requests) were made to Secure.flashtalking.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (763 ms) relates to the external source Yui.yahooapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (59%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

712.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Boatracingfacts.com main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 932.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 170.5 kB

  • Original 191.3 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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 170.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 420.7 kB
  • After minification 393.5 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. Boat Racing Facts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 659.2 kB

  • Original 932.8 kB
  • After minification 879.0 kB
  • After compression 273.5 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 659.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 150.0 kB

  • Original 174.5 kB
  • After minification 137.9 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Boatracingfacts.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 97 (66%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boat Racing Facts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

boatracingfacts.com accessibility score

65

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

boatracingfacts.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

boatracingfacts.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boatracingfacts.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 Boatracingfacts.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Boat Racing Facts. 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: