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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

sportspicksforum.com

Sports Handicappers & Sports Predictions - SportsPicksForum.com

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportspicksforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sportspicksforum.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sportspicksforum.com

178 ms

www.sportspicksforum.com

153 ms

www.sportspicksforum.com

309 ms

styles.css

189 ms

cart.js

203 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Sportspicksforum.com, 10% (4 requests) were made to A.mailmunch.co and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (941 ms) belongs to the original domain Sportspicksforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 669.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sportspicksforum.com main page is 3.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 105.3 kB

  • Original 241.3 kB
  • After minification 237.8 kB
  • After compression 136.0 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 105.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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 Picks Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 513.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 889.6 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 513.4 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. Sportspicksforum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (32%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sports Picks Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sportspicksforum.com

sportspicksforum.com

178 ms

www.sportspicksforum.com

www.sportspicksforum.com

153 ms

www.sportspicksforum.com

www.sportspicksforum.com

309 ms

styles.css

styles.css

189 ms

cart.js

cart.js

203 ms

spf.css

spf.css

210 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

28 ms

spfi.js

spfi.js

780 ms

spf.js

spf.js

181 ms

site.js

site.js

30 ms

nfl-bg.jpg

nfl-bg.jpg

397 ms

top-black.jpg

top-black.jpg

173 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

189 ms

tr-image-set.jpg

tr-image-set.jpg

256 ms

nav-bg.jpg

nav-bg.jpg

210 ms

spf-protection.png

spf-protection.png

343 ms

baseball-banner.png

baseball-banner.png

941 ms

Best-Sports-Handicappers.png

Best-Sports-Handicappers.png

459 ms

MLB_picks.png

MLB_picks.png

426 ms

NFL_picks.png

NFL_picks.png

513 ms

NCAAF_picks.png

NCAAF_picks.png

567 ms

r-nav-bg.jpg

r-nav-bg.jpg

649 ms

r-nav-top.jpg

r-nav-top.jpg

667 ms

r-nav-header.jpg

r-nav-header.jpg

691 ms

r-nav-bottom.jpg

r-nav-bottom.jpg

736 ms

SPF_banner_220x300.gif

SPF_banner_220x300.gif

855 ms

bodog.jpg

bodog.jpg

878 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

37 ms

styles.css

styles.css

14 ms

settings_v2

settings_v2

71 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

popover.js

popover.js

3 ms

418856

418856

54 ms

index.css

index.css

3 ms

css

css

33 ms

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78 ms

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24 ms

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25 ms

Accessibility Review

sportspicksforum.com accessibility score

56

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sportspicksforum.com best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sportspicksforum.com SEO score

69

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

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 Sportspicksforum.com 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 Sportspicksforum.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

sportspicksforum.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sports Picks Forum. 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: