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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

asktheref.com

Soccer Rules Explained Educating and Amusing The Soccer Referee Since October 11, 1999

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

582 ms

Page Rendered

284 ms

About Website

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The soccer rule Q and A site -- Ask The Referee is a Soccer Rules Question and Answer Site providing expert answers to all your soccer rule questions regarding the Laws of the Game

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Key Findings

We analyzed Asktheref.com page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 866 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

asktheref.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

asktheref.com

222 ms

screen.css

121 ms

show_ads.js

72 ms

all.js

18 ms

urchin.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Asktheref.com, 14% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (222 ms) belongs to the original domain Asktheref.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.7 kB (61%)

Content Size

251.3 kB

After Optimization

97.6 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Asktheref.com main page is 251.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 214.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 19.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 127.2 kB

  • Original 214.0 kB
  • After minification 214.0 kB
  • After compression 86.8 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 127.2 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Asktheref.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (33%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Asktheref. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

asktheref.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

asktheref.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

asktheref.com SEO score

69

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

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 Asktheref.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 Asktheref.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 Asktheref. 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: