Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

footballness.com

Footballness | NFL, NCAAF & XFL News Blog

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Footballness.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

footballness.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

footballness.com

1564 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

220 ms

css

69 ms

genericons.css

291 ms

style.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Footballness.com, 29% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Footballness.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.9 kB (70%)

Content Size

264.7 kB

After Optimization

79.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Footballness.com main page is 264.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 142.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 13.3 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 8.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 97.3 kB

  • Original 142.9 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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 97.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 78.9 kB

  • Original 108.5 kB
  • After minification 89.1 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. Footballness.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 78.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (50%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Footballness. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

footballness.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

footballness.com SEO score

69

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Footballness.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 Footballness.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 Footballness. 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: