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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

cougarguard.com

cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board - Powered by vBulletin

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cougarguard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cougarguard.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.php

209 ms

vbulletin_important.css

86 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

214 ms

connection-min.js

161 ms

vbulletin_global.js

156 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Cougarguard.com, 14% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (374 ms) belongs to the original domain Cougarguard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.4 kB (54%)

Content Size

286.8 kB

After Optimization

132.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cougarguard.com main page is 286.8 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. Javascripts take 123.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 55.4 kB
  • After minification 52.4 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 46.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 72.4 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, Cougarguard needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.1 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 123.2 kB
  • After minification 120.8 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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 72.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 232 B

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. Cougarguard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (50%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cougarguard. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

index.php

index.php

209 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

86 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

214 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

161 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

156 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

164 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

141 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

5 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

170 ms

ca-pub-8782945987007074.js

ca-pub-8782945987007074.js

49 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

44 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

49 ms

CougarGuard02_new2.gif

CougarGuard02_new2.gif

231 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

87 ms

menu_open.gif

menu_open.gif

84 ms

gradient_tcat.gif

gradient_tcat.gif

114 ms

gradient_thead.gif

gradient_thead.gif

110 ms

collapse_tcat.gif

collapse_tcat.gif

83 ms

forum_old.gif

forum_old.gif

178 ms

icon1.gif

icon1.gif

161 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

185 ms

collapse_thead.gif

collapse_thead.gif

188 ms

stats.gif

stats.gif

187 ms

forum_new.gif

forum_new.gif

229 ms

cron.php

cron.php

374 ms

ads

ads

150 ms

osd.js

osd.js

17 ms

ads

ads

209 ms

abg.js

abg.js

15 ms

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12966230933094491000

9 ms

s

s

5 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

7 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

32 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

28 ms

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

3 ms

Accessibility Review

cougarguard.com accessibility score

79

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

cougarguard.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cougarguard.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cougarguard.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 Cougarguard.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cougarguard. 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: