Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% 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

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

echl.com

ECHL | Premier "AA" Hockey League

Page Load Speed

109.7 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

90.4 sec

Page Rendered

19.3 sec

echl.com screenshot

About Website

Visit echl.com now to see the best up-to-date ECHL content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about echl.com

The Official Site of The ECHL including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Echl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 109.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

echl.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value61,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value77.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

echl.com

73 ms

www.echl.com

435 ms

stylesheet.css

2353 ms

stylesheet.css

445 ms

slick-theme.css

1981 ms

Our browser made a total of 228 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Echl.com, 55% (125 requests) were made to 3ulgqr468n8z25xfs1186kk2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 13% (29 requests) were made to D29xw9s9x32j3w.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.2 sec) relates to the external source Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.9 MB (41%)

Content Size

9.7 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Echl.com main page is 9.7 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. 85% 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 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 258.4 kB

  • Original 316.3 kB
  • After minification 312.4 kB
  • After compression 57.9 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 258.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 482.1 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. ECHL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 2.5 MB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 2.5 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 701.1 kB

  • Original 861.3 kB
  • After minification 794.5 kB
  • After compression 160.2 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. Echl.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 701.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (38%)

Requests Now

211

After Optimization

131

The browser has sent 211 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ECHL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

echl.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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

echl.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

echl.com SEO score

70

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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