Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

scout.com

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Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

464 ms

Page Rendered

691 ms

scout.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scout.com page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scout.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

247sports.com

60 ms

8677.css

114 ms

bundle.css

119 ms

homepageWrapper.css

120 ms

homepage.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Scout.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to 247sports.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (365 ms) relates to the external source At.cbsi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 316.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Scout.com main page is 3.1 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. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 243.4 kB

  • Original 301.5 kB
  • After minification 299.6 kB
  • After compression 58.1 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. 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 243.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Scout images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 96.6 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 58.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (51%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scout. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scout.com accessibility score

93

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.

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

scout.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

scout.com SEO score

83

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

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 Scout.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 Scout.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 Scout. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: