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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

racingpost.com

Horse Racing Cards, Results & Betting | Racing Post

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Visit racingpost.com now to see the best up-to-date Racing Post content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about racingpost.com

Racing Post, the home of horse racing news, cards and results. Get expert racing tips, form and analysis. Explore our jockey, trainer, and horse profiles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Racingpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 5.2 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

racingpost.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.188

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Racingpost.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Racingpost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 988.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

822.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Racingpost.com main page is 1.8 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 988.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 116.1 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. 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 988.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 706.5 kB
  • After minification 706.5 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. Racing Post images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (35%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

72

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Racing Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.racingpost.com

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Accessibility Review

racingpost.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

racingpost.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

racingpost.com SEO score

99

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Racingpost.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 Racingpost.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

racingpost.com

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