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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

salemsox.com

Salem Red Sox | MiLB.com

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

656 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

salemsox.com screenshot

About Website

Visit salemsox.com now to see the best up-to-date Salem Sox content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about salemsox.com

The Official Site of Minor League Baseball web site includes features, news, rosters, statistics, schedules, teams, live game radio broadcasts, and video clips.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Salemsox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 656 ms 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

salemsox.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value38,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value76.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

salem

656 ms

mlb-okta.js

68 ms

t414-global-properties-t414-background-skins-t414-base-palette.css

116 ms

site.css

81 ms

index.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Salemsox.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to Mlbstatic.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) relates to the external source Milb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 339.7 kB (78%)

Content Size

436.9 kB

After Optimization

97.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Salemsox.com main page is 436.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 400.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 336.7 kB

  • Original 400.2 kB
  • After minification 366.8 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 336.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 34.5 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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 11 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Salemsox.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (63%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Salem Sox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

salem

salem

656 ms

mlb-okta.js

mlb-okta.js

68 ms

t414-global-properties-t414-background-skins-t414-base-palette.css

t414-global-properties-t414-background-skins-t414-base-palette.css

116 ms

site.css

site.css

81 ms

index.css

index.css

81 ms

61e589ec-b161-4c71-b060-51eaffa78757

61e589ec-b161-4c71-b060-51eaffa78757

379 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

54 ms

common.js

common.js

56 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

56 ms

vsm-components-hydrator-b9c2f1a4.js

vsm-components-hydrator-b9c2f1a4.js

125 ms

loader.js

loader.js

37 ms

414.svg

414.svg

24 ms

llwmywlwqhcgflpg2xor.png

llwmywlwqhcgflpg2xor.png

40 ms

111.svg

111.svg

14 ms

milb-alt.svg

milb-alt.svg

14 ms

impl.20240111-22-RELEASE.es5.js

impl.20240111-22-RELEASE.es5.js

12 ms

sync

sync

27 ms

ngx.embed.min.js

ngx.embed.min.js

45 ms

61e589ec-b161-4c71-b060-51eaffa78757

61e589ec-b161-4c71-b060-51eaffa78757

338 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

61 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

100 ms

datadog-rum-v4.js

datadog-rum-v4.js

15 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

128 ms

quant.js

quant.js

46 ms

js

js

42 ms

embedder

embedder

163 ms

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activityi;src=5181637;type=milbm0;cat=salem0;ord=1;num=5850800653733;auiddc=875536667.1705276124;gtm=45He41a0v78619319;gcd=11l1l1l1l1;dma=0;epver=2;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milb.com%2Fsalem

148 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

134 ms

otCCPAiab.js

otCCPAiab.js

164 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

collect

collect

50 ms

js

js

50 ms

3753cbc4-f8a3-4f54-9385-ab798fbada6b.json

3753cbc4-f8a3-4f54-9385-ab798fbada6b.json

66 ms

dnsfeed

dnsfeed

50 ms

location

location

28 ms

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src=5181637;type=milbm0;cat=salem0;ord=1;num=5850800653733;auiddc=875536667.1705276124;gtm=45He41a0v78619319;gcd=11l1l1l1l1;dma=0;epver=2;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.milb.com%2Fsalem

22 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

15 ms

40996

40996

186 ms

en.json

en.json

28 ms

otFlat.json

otFlat.json

11 ms

otPcTab.json

otPcTab.json

17 ms

milb.png

milb.png

49 ms

zi-tag.js

zi-tag.js

39 ms

Accessibility Review

salemsox.com accessibility score

65

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

salemsox.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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

salemsox.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Salemsox.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 Salemsox.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

salemsox.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Salem Sox. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: