Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

sportpilot.org

Light-Sport Aircraft | EAA

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

369 ms

sportpilot.org screenshot

About Website

Visit sportpilot.org now to see the best up-to-date Sport Pilot content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sportpilot.org

Light-sport aircraft (LSA) and the corresponding sport pilot certificate make flying easier, more affordable, and more accessible - not to mention fun!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportpilot.org page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sportpilot.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,200 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sportpilot.org

86 ms

how-to-become-a-sport-pilot

247 ms

main.less

495 ms

home.less

214 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sportpilot.org, 84% (141 requests) were made to Eaa.org and 2% (4 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (583 ms) relates to the external source Eaa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (53%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Sportpilot.org main page is 3.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 121.9 kB

  • Original 148.0 kB
  • After minification 99.8 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 48.2 kB, which is 33% 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 121.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 107.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Sport Pilot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 332.0 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 1.5 MB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 255.1 kB

  • Original 293.9 kB
  • After minification 240.7 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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. Sportpilot.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 255.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 108 (67%)

Requests Now

162

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 162 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sport Pilot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 92 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sportpilot.org accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Best Practices

sportpilot.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sportpilot.org SEO score

81

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

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