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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

blueandgold.com

Blue and Gold Home | On3.com

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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The latest Notre Dame Fighting Irish news, recruiting, transfers, and NIL information at Blue and Gold, part of on3.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blueandgold.com page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blueandgold.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,010 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

notredame.rivals.com

263 ms

notredame.n.rivals.com

263 ms

css

128 ms

css

149 ms

application-0162cb64398a24e7ac47410c2f1aa246.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blueandgold.com, 11% (8 requests) were made to Res-2.cloudinary.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Api-secure.sports.yahoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Api-secure.sports.yahoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

957.4 kB

After Optimization

700.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blueandgold.com main page is 957.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 628.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 247.0 kB

  • Original 279.1 kB
  • After minification 244.2 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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 34.9 kB, which is 13% 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 247.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 628.2 kB
  • After minification 625.4 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. Blue And Gold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 111 B

  • Original 38.8 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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

-66%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Blueandgold.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (10%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue And Gold. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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32 ms

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Accessibility Review

blueandgold.com accessibility score

80

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

blueandgold.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blueandgold.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blueandgold.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 Blueandgold.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

blueandgold.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blue And Gold. 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: