Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

ulax.org

ULAX Lacrosse League

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

ulax.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing ULAX content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ulax.org

University Lacrosse (ULAX) is the largest network of lacrosse leagues in North America, providing opportunities for men, women and high school players.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ulax.org page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ulax.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.017

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ulax.org

211 ms

styles.css

54 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

utils.js

61 ms

ga.js

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Ulax.org, 15% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (752 ms) belongs to the original domain Ulax.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.1 kB (59%)

Content Size

115.1 kB

After Optimization

47.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ulax.org main page is 115.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 70.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 27.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 32.0 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Ulax.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (42%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ULAX. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ulax.org accessibility score

75

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.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

ulax.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ulax.org SEO score

73

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ulax.org 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 Ulax.org 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 ULAX. 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: