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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

hostyourbrackets.com

Host Your Sports Playoff, Office Pool & Tournament Brackets | HostYourBrackets

Page Load Speed

647 ms in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

492 ms

Page Rendered

74 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostyourbrackets.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 566 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostyourbrackets.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hostyourbrackets.com

81 ms

hostyourbrackets.com

147 ms

hyb_style.css

33 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

122 ms

jquery.corner.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Hostyourbrackets.com, 18% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 18% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (147 ms) belongs to the original domain Hostyourbrackets.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 125.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

265.9 kB

After Optimization

140.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hostyourbrackets.com main page is 265.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 233.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.9 kB, which is 34% 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 10.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 233.4 kB
  • After minification 228.3 kB
  • After compression 134.8 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 98.7 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 10.0 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Hostyourbrackets.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (56%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Host Your Brackets. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hostyourbrackets.com

hostyourbrackets.com

81 ms

hostyourbrackets.com

hostyourbrackets.com

147 ms

hyb_style.css

hyb_style.css

33 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

122 ms

jquery.corner.js

jquery.corner.js

48 ms

hyb.js

hyb.js

47 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

80 ms

ga.js

ga.js

25 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

99 ms

HostYourBrackets_top_logo.gif

HostYourBrackets_top_logo.gif

17 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

hostyourbrackets.com accessibility score

73

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

hostyourbrackets.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hostyourbrackets.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Hostyourbrackets.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 Hostyourbrackets.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

hostyourbrackets.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Host Your Brackets. 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: