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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

iowa.rivals.com

Go Iowa Awesome: Iowa Hawkeyes football & basketball recruiting

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

549 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iowa.rivals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms 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 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iowa.rivals.com performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.288

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iowa.rivals.com

226 ms

iowa.n.rivals.com

164 ms

css

90 ms

css

101 ms

application-70edd4415184ab9c90cef66e7060a696.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Iowa.rivals.com, 29% (27 requests) were made to S.yimg.com and 12% (11 requests) were made to Iowa.n.rivals.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (680 ms) relates to the external source Geo.query.yahoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 515.6 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

637.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iowa.rivals.com main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 506.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 273.7 kB

  • Original 305.5 kB
  • After minification 257.1 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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 48.5 kB, which is 16% 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 273.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 506.3 kB
  • After minification 504.7 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. Iowa Rivals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 110 B

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 47.6 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 240.1 kB

  • Original 293.3 kB
  • After minification 291.6 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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. Iowa.rivals.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (14%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

72

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iowa Rivals. 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

iowa.rivals.com

iowa.rivals.com

226 ms

iowa.n.rivals.com

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164 ms

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Accessibility Review

iowa.rivals.com accessibility score

56

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

iowa.rivals.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

iowa.rivals.com SEO score

46

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iowa.rivals.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Iowa.rivals.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

iowa.rivals.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Iowa Rivals. 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: