Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

racestud.com

Racestud's racing community

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

3.9 sec

racestud.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Racestud.com page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 11.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

racestud.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,340 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

racestud.com

261 ms

branding.css

102 ms

adsbygoogle.js

25 ms

addthis_widget.js

25 ms

branding.css

376 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Racestud.com, 19% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 14% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 802.5 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

742.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Racestud.com main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 22.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 244.6 kB
  • After minification 237.5 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. Racestud images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 772.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 497.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 772.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 322 B
  • After minification 322 B
  • After compression 245 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. Racestud.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (47%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Racestud. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

racestud.com accessibility score

71

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

racestud.com best practices score

69

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

racestud.com SEO score

85

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Racestud.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 Racestud.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 description is not detected on the main page of Racestud. 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: