Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

theraceguide.com.au

TheRaceGuide.com.au

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

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About Website

Welcome to theraceguide.com.au homepage info - get ready to check The Race Guide best content right away, or after learning these important things about theraceguide.com.au

TheRaceGuide.com.au is a free form, analysis and information site for horse racing in Australia. Racing analysis, form and news - reimagined.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theraceguide.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theraceguide.com.au performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.211

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theraceguide.com.au

111 ms

css2

46 ms

application-dc720ae21dd0a12036b0f015b3658296908ba9a58319c0778431872a2ac6e658.css

29 ms

es-module-shims.min-4ca9b3dd5e434131e3bb4b0c1d7dff3bfd4035672a5086deec6f73979a49be73.js

76 ms

ABLE_WILLIE.jpg

1039 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Theraceguide.com.au, 36% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 23% (5 requests) were made to S3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source S3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

198.5 kB

After Optimization

183.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Theraceguide.com.au main page is 198.5 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. Images take 94.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.9 kB, which is 14% 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 15.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 94.0 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB

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. The Race Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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 0 B

  • Original 50.0 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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. Theraceguide.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Race Guide. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

theraceguide.com.au accessibility score

76

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.

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

theraceguide.com.au 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

theraceguide.com.au SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theraceguide.com.au 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 Theraceguide.com.au 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 The Race Guide. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: