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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

athleteapproved.com

Athlete Approved Swimming | Sharing ideas and gear athletes approve!

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

826 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Visit athleteapproved.com now to see the best up-to-date Athlete Approved content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about athleteapproved.com

Helping you be a better athlete by sharing Athlete Approved ideas and gear. Recommendations are time tested by the best athletes in the world!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Athleteapproved.com page load time and found that the first response time was 826 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

athleteapproved.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,180 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.365

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

athleteapproved.com

826 ms

js

43 ms

analytics.js

50 ms

js

75 ms

layerslider.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 151 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (140 requests) were addressed to the original Athleteapproved.com, 3% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (979 ms) belongs to the original domain Athleteapproved.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 200.3 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Athleteapproved.com main page is 6.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 146.5 kB

  • Original 173.4 kB
  • After minification 170.3 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 146.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Athlete Approved images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 478.4 kB
  • After minification 476.9 kB
  • After compression 442.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 241.7 kB
  • After minification 241.3 kB
  • After compression 236.2 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. Athleteapproved.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (49%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

76

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Athlete Approved. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

athleteapproved.com accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

athleteapproved.com 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

athleteapproved.com SEO score

92

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

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 Athleteapproved.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 Athleteapproved.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 Athlete Approved. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: