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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

balltalk.co

Ball Talk | The sports chat app that lets you do more than watch....

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

157 ms

Resources Loaded

972 ms

Page Rendered

559 ms

About Website

Welcome to balltalk.co homepage info - get ready to check Ball Talk best content right away, or after learning these important things about balltalk.co

Ball Talk is changing the fan experience as we know it. We are bringing fans an outlet where they can track, read, and discuss all things sports.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balltalk.co page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balltalk.co performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balltalk.co

157 ms

css

53 ms

style.min.css

30 ms

font-awesome.min.css

42 ms

5-layout.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Balltalk.co, 17% (8 requests) were made to Balltalk.wpengine.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (420 ms) relates to the external source Balltalk.wpengine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

943.9 kB

After Optimization

883.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balltalk.co main page is 943.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 586.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 51.4 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.2 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 51.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 586.0 kB
  • After minification 586.0 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. Ball Talk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 215.8 kB
  • After minification 215.8 kB
  • After compression 213.7 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 78.3 kB
  • After minification 78.0 kB
  • After compression 71.6 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. Balltalk.co has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (58%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ball Talk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

balltalk.co accessibility score

82

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

balltalk.co best practices score

83

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

balltalk.co SEO score

100

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

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 Balltalk.co 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 Balltalk.co 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 Ball Talk. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: