Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

rugbynetwork.net

Welcome to RugbyNetwork.net

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

169 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rugbynetwork.net page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 4.2 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

rugbynetwork.net performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rugbynetwork.net

2547 ms

dc.js

30 ms

beacon.js

5 ms

AjaxRequest.js

107 ms

__utm.gif

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Rugbynetwork.net, 13% (6 requests) were made to Images.sportnetwork.net and 11% (5 requests) were made to Delivery.b.switchadhub.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Rugbynetwork.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.7 kB (39%)

Content Size

316.5 kB

After Optimization

192.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Rugbynetwork.net main page is 316.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 124.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 6.8 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 45.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 124.3 kB
  • After minification 118.3 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. Rugby Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 117.1 kB
  • After compression 61.1 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 62.3 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Rugbynetwork.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (43%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rugby Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rugbynetwork.net accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

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

rugbynetwork.net best practices score

69

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

rugbynetwork.net SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rugbynetwork.net 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 Rugbynetwork.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rugby Network. 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: