Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

cougarfan.com

Cougar Fan

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

374 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

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About Website

Visit cougarfan.com now to see the best up-to-date Cougar Fan content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cougarfan.com

The fan's source for BYU Cougars news. Coverage of BYU football, BYU basketball and all other BYU Cougars sports from local and national sports and media websites.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cougarfan.com page load time and found that the first response time was 374 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cougarfan.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cougarfan.com

374 ms

normalize.css

156 ms

css

25 ms

css

38 ms

app.css

334 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Cougarfan.com, 21% (15 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (746 ms) belongs to the original domain Cougarfan.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 711.3 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

742.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Cougarfan.com main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 538.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 68.1 kB

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 58.2 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 21.1 kB, which is 27% 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 68.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 538.0 kB
  • After minification 529.2 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. Cougar Fan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 369.7 kB

  • Original 529.7 kB
  • After minification 464.2 kB
  • After compression 160.0 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 369.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 264.7 kB

  • Original 307.0 kB
  • After minification 241.9 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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. Cougarfan.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 264.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (57%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cougar Fan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cougarfan.com accessibility score

78

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cougarfan.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

SEO Factors

cougarfan.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Cougarfan.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 Cougarfan.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 data is detected on the main page of Cougar Fan. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: