Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com

MLB.com | The Official Site of Major League Baseball

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

791 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value40.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value76.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com

111 ms

index.jsp

68 ms

global.css

60 ms

stl.css

77 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.custom.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 360 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (236 requests) were addressed to the original Stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com, 8% (27 requests) were made to Mlb.mlb.com and 3% (12 requests) were made to Ui.bamstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (670 ms) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (50%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com main page is 5.4 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 315.7 kB

  • Original 371.4 kB
  • After minification 316.8 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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 54.5 kB, which is 15% 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 315.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 349.9 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Stlouis Cardinals MLB needs image optimization as it can save up to 349.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 615.3 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 1.8 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 240.2 kB

  • Original 288.3 kB
  • After minification 244.9 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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. Stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 209 (60%)

Requests Now

348

After Optimization

139

The browser has sent 348 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stlouis Cardinals MLB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 155 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

stlouis.cardinals.mlb.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com SEO score

92

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

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 Stlouis.cardinals.mlb.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 Stlouis.cardinals.mlb.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 Stlouis Cardinals MLB. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: