Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

eastcarolina.247sports.com

College Sports News and Recruiting

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

10.9 sec

Page Rendered

661 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastcarolina.247sports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 11.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Eastcarolina.247sports.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

eastcarolina.247sports.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.333

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eastcarolina.247sports.com

320 ms

minify.css

24 ms

minify.css

10 ms

Site50.css

13 ms

css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 463 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eastcarolina.247sports.com, 5% (23 requests) were made to S3media.247sports.com and 4% (20 requests) were made to Assets.247sports.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.8 sec) relates to the external source De.tynt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (52%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Eastcarolina.247sports.com main page is 4.4 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 125.0 kB

  • Original 154.9 kB
  • After minification 142.0 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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 125.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 156.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Eastcarolina 247 Sports needs image optimization as it can save up to 156.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 MB
  • After compression 934.9 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 1.7 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 318.2 kB

  • Original 390.2 kB
  • After minification 377.1 kB
  • After compression 72.0 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. Eastcarolina.247sports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 318.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 303 (71%)

Requests Now

426

After Optimization

123

The browser has sent 426 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eastcarolina 247 Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 114 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eastcarolina.247sports.com accessibility score

84

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

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.

Best Practices

eastcarolina.247sports.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

eastcarolina.247sports.com SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Eastcarolina.247sports.com 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 Eastcarolina.247sports.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 data is detected on the main page of Eastcarolina 247 Sports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: