Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

basketball.dailyherald.com

Daily Herald - Suburban Chicago's Information Source

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Basketball.dailyherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 4.2 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

basketball.dailyherald.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value29.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value66,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value86.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

basketball.dailyherald.com

142 ms

basketball.dailyherald.com

135 ms

bf-theme2018.css

28 ms

1f46e590-f7f6-0135-43e0-067f653fa718

399 ms

prebid.js

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Basketball.dailyherald.com, 11% (3 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.klangoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

497.8 kB

After Optimization

432.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Basketball.dailyherald.com main page is 497.8 kB. 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. Javascripts take 332.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 34.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 90.9 kB
  • After minification 90.9 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. Basketball Daily Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 332.0 kB
  • After minification 332.0 kB
  • After compression 303.1 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 28.0 kB
  • After minification 28.0 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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. Basketball.dailyherald.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (73%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Basketball Daily Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

basketball.dailyherald.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

basketball.dailyherald.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

basketball.dailyherald.com SEO score

100

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

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 Basketball.dailyherald.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 Basketball.dailyherald.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 Basketball Daily Herald. 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: