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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz

Racing News | Comprehensive coverage of New Zealand racing

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

490 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Racing News Rocketspark content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz

All the latest racing news and videos. Keep up to date with your favourite horses, jockeys, trainers and bloodstock news. Comprehensive coverage of the New Zealand thoroughbred racing scene.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 3.8 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

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz

44 ms

600 ms

js

70 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

57 ms

public.min.v20240825180434.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz, 40% (12 requests) were made to Cdn.rocketspark.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Nz.rs-cdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 148.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

697.8 kB

After Optimization

548.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz main page is 697.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 382.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

  • Original 100.3 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 12.1 kB, which is 12% 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 82.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 65.5 kB

  • Original 153.0 kB
  • After minification 87.5 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. Obviously, Racing News Rocketspark needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.5 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 750 B

  • Original 382.2 kB
  • After minification 381.5 kB
  • After compression 381.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 384 B

  • Original 62.2 kB
  • After minification 62.2 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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. Racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (63%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Racing News Rocketspark. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz

44 ms

600 ms

js

js

70 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

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57 ms

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81 ms

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111 ms

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86 ms

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93 ms

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100 ms

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vendors.7fcf9273d354.bundle.css

99 ms

rocketspark.esm.js

rocketspark.esm.js

49 ms

rocketspark.css

rocketspark.css

22 ms

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index.css

30 ms

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81 ms

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97 ms

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general.js

107 ms

css.css

css.css

66 ms

css.css

css.css

672 ms

js.js

js.js

663 ms

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725 ms

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racingjobs.png

1241 ms

Accessibility Review

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz accessibility score

85

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz SEO score

76

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

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz 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

racingnews.rocketspark.co.nz

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Racing News Rocketspark. 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: