Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% 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

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

zerotackle.com

The #1 source of independent NRL news and analysis - Zero Tackle

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

666 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

zerotackle.com screenshot

About Website

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The home of NRL news and analysis. Rugby League culture, NRL player and team statistics, contracts, live scores, trade rumours and State of Origin.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zerotackle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 666 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zerotackle.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.zerotackle.com

666 ms

post-widget.js

86 ms

x29362r8687176

33 ms

analytics.js

32 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

433 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Zerotackle.com, 32% (61 requests) were made to Static.zerotackle.com and 5% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Static.zeroscrum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Zerotackle.com main page is 2.4 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. 75% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 119.5 kB

  • Original 166.4 kB
  • After minification 166.3 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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 119.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 183.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 855.4 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. Obviously, Zero Tackle needs image optimization as it can save up to 183.2 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 607.8 kB

  • Original 876.1 kB
  • After minification 849.5 kB
  • After compression 268.3 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 607.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 252.3 kB

  • Original 305.0 kB
  • After minification 298.7 kB
  • After compression 52.7 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. Zerotackle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 252.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (49%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

88

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zero Tackle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

zerotackle.com accessibility score

88

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

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

zerotackle.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

zerotackle.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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