Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

Page Load Speed

19.6 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

15.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefootballexpress.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 17.5 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

thefootballexpress.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thefootballexpress.co.uk

2113 ms

style.css

137 ms

widgets.css

141 ms

jquery.js

233 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 451 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Thefootballexpress.co.uk, 10% (44 requests) were made to Tags.bluekai.com and 10% (43 requests) were made to Bcp.crwdcntrl.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) relates to the external source Linksalpha.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 219.0 kB (58%)

Content Size

377.3 kB

After Optimization

158.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Thefootballexpress.co.uk main page is 377.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 252.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 48.9 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.9 kB, which is 12% 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 45.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 46.4 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. Thefootballexpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 154.5 kB

  • Original 252.0 kB
  • After minification 244.7 kB
  • After compression 97.6 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 154.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 16.6 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Thefootballexpress.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 293 (76%)

Requests Now

385

After Optimization

92

The browser has sent 385 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thefootballexpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thefootballexpress.co.uk accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

thefootballexpress.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

thefootballexpress.co.uk SEO score

50

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thefootballexpress.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Thefootballexpress.co.uk 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 Thefootballexpress. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: