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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

churchilldowns.com

Home page | Churchill Downs

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

886 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Churchill Downs content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about churchilldowns.com

Churchill Downs Racetrack the home of the Kentucky Derby conducts Thoroughbred horse racing in Louisville, Kentucky throughout the year.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Churchilldowns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

churchilldowns.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,890 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

churchilldowns.com

26 ms

churchilldowns.com

16 ms

www.churchilldowns.com

61 ms

gtm.js

79 ms

CDLogo-1.png

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Churchilldowns.com, 45% (30 requests) were made to Kentuckyderby.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (584 ms) relates to the external source Kentuckyderby.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 332.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Churchilldowns.com main page is 4.4 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. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 218.3 kB

  • Original 257.6 kB
  • After minification 249.9 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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 218.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Churchill Downs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 406.8 kB
  • After minification 406.8 kB
  • After compression 373.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Churchilldowns.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (33%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Churchill Downs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

churchilldowns.com

churchilldowns.com

26 ms

churchilldowns.com

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16 ms

www.churchilldowns.com

www.churchilldowns.com

61 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

79 ms

CDLogo-1.png

CDLogo-1.png

56 ms

api.js

api.js

62 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

18 ms

script.min.js

script.min.js

32 ms

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37 ms

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39 ms

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38 ms

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42 ms

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49 ms

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55 ms

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54 ms

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87 ms

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89 ms

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85 ms

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86 ms

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86 ms

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73 ms

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72 ms

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181 ms

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Accessibility Review

churchilldowns.com accessibility score

92

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

Best Practices

churchilldowns.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

churchilldowns.com SEO score

76

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Churchilldowns.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 Churchilldowns.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

churchilldowns.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Churchill Downs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: