Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

sportsottawa.com

OttawaSportsPages.ca

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

843 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportsottawa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 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

sportsottawa.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sportsottawa.com

11 ms

ottawasportspages.ca

806 ms

71 ms

dashicons.min.css

49 ms

css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sportsottawa.com, 40% (17 requests) were made to Ottawasportspages.ca and 30% (13 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (806 ms) relates to the external source Ottawasportspages.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Sportsottawa.com main page is 5.7 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. 80% 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 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 132.9 kB

  • Original 160.9 kB
  • After minification 157.9 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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. 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 132.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 68.3 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Sports Ottawa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 346.0 kB
  • After minification 345.5 kB
  • After compression 343.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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. Sportsottawa.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (47%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sports Ottawa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sportsottawa.com accessibility score

81

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

[role] values are not valid

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sportsottawa.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sportsottawa.com SEO score

88

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

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