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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

apex-sports.co.uk

A haven dedicated to runners in Marlow - Runners Retreat

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Apex Sports content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about apex-sports.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apex-sports.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 1.3 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

apex-sports.co.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apex-sports.co.uk

253 ms

www.apex-sports.co.uk

305 ms

sitecss.css

89 ms

globalcss.css

166 ms

navcss.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Apex-sports.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (305 ms) belongs to the original domain Apex-sports.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 178.0 kB (58%)

Content Size

308.5 kB

After Optimization

130.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apex-sports.co.uk main page is 308.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 138.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 52.3 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 46.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 82.0 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. Obviously, Apex Sports needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 114.7 kB

  • Original 138.6 kB
  • After minification 117.0 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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. Apex-sports.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 114.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (30%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apex-sports.co.uk

apex-sports.co.uk

253 ms

www.apex-sports.co.uk

www.apex-sports.co.uk

305 ms

sitecss.css

sitecss.css

89 ms

globalcss.css

globalcss.css

166 ms

navcss.css

navcss.css

163 ms

skeleton.css

skeleton.css

173 ms

style.css

style.css

168 ms

UBentryForm.css

UBentryForm.css

163 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

4 ms

css

css

58 ms

ga.js

ga.js

37 ms

hide.png

hide.png

93 ms

ApexLogo4.png

ApexLogo4.png

163 ms

thumbloading.png

thumbloading.png

92 ms

bigBlogsButton.png

bigBlogsButton.png

91 ms

bigRunningClubs.png

bigRunningClubs.png

89 ms

bigFindShoeButton.png

bigFindShoeButton.png

89 ms

bigLinksButton.png

bigLinksButton.png

170 ms

blackBGrep.png

blackBGrep.png

247 ms

creditcards.png

creditcards.png

168 ms

twittericon.png

twittericon.png

167 ms

fbicon.png

fbicon.png

167 ms

twdclogobranding.png

twdclogobranding.png

243 ms

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1EqTbJWOZQBfhZ0e3RL9uvesZW2xOQ-xsNqO47m55DA.ttf

90 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

23 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

3 ms

common.js

common.js

89 ms

Accessibility Review

apex-sports.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

apex-sports.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

apex-sports.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Apex-sports.co.uk 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 Apex-sports.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

apex-sports.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Apex Sports. 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: