Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

vucommodores.com

Vanderbilt Commodores | Official Athletic Site

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

875 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

650 ms

vucommodores.com screenshot

About Website

Visit vucommodores.com now to see the best up-to-date Vu Commodores content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vucommodores.com

The Official Athletic Site of the Vanderbilt Commodores. The most comprehensive coverage of Vanderbilt Athletics on the web with highlights, scores, game summaries, and rosters. Powered by WMT Digital...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vucommodores.com page load time and found that the first response time was 875 ms and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vucommodores.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,910 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vucommodores.com

875 ms

www.vucommodores.com

302 ms

css

23 ms

css

43 ms

vand-13-display.css

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 280 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Vucommodores.com, 48% (134 requests) were made to Grfx.cstv.com and 7% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) relates to the external source Grfx.cstv.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (27%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Vucommodores.com main page is 6.1 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. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 115.9 kB

  • Original 142.5 kB
  • After minification 130.7 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 115.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 155.4 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB

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. Vu Commodores images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 551.6 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 1.1 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 231.8 kB

  • Original 280.7 kB
  • After minification 277.8 kB
  • After compression 48.9 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. Vucommodores.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 231.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 115 (43%)

Requests Now

265

After Optimization

150

The browser has sent 265 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vu Commodores. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vucommodores.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

vucommodores.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vucommodores.com SEO score

97

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 Vucommodores.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 Vucommodores.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 Vu Commodores. 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: