Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

tennisreporters.net

TennisReporters.net – The only web site to win the USTA Media Excellence Award.

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

276 ms

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TennisReporters.net covers the professional tennis tours with full-time, experienced tennis writers. Our main writer is Matthew Cronin (Matt Cronin), author of Epic: John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, And The ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tennisreporters.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tennisreporters.net performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.tennisreporters.net

1817 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

95 ms

style.css

146 ms

CWPPoll.css

127 ms

JqueryUi.css

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Tennisreporters.net, 10% (6 requests) were made to I2.wp.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Tennisreporters.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 458.9 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Tennisreporters.net 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 921.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 42.3 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 6.7 kB, which is 14% 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 39.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 921.9 kB
  • After minification 879.9 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. Tennis Reporters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 255.5 kB

  • Original 376.1 kB
  • After minification 349.4 kB
  • After compression 120.5 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 255.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 122.3 kB

  • Original 145.9 kB
  • After minification 122.2 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Tennisreporters.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 122.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (66%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tennis Reporters. 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 from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tennisreporters.net accessibility score

78

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

tennisreporters.net 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

tennisreporters.net SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Tennisreporters.net 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 Tennisreporters.net 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 Tennis Reporters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: