Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

cougarsportswire.com

Sports News, Scores, Predictions and Analysis - USA TODAY

Page Load Speed

215 ms in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

108 ms

Page Rendered

72 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Cougar Sports Wire content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cougarsportswire.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cougarsportswire.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 180 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cougarsportswire.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cougarsportswire.com

35 ms

9 ms

m-oc.svg

7 ms

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22 ms

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21 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cougarsportswire.com, 88% (7 requests) were made to Usatoday.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (35 ms) belongs to the original domain Cougarsportswire.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

35.1 kB

After Optimization

31.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Cougarsportswire.com main page is 35.1 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 30.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 3.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 146 B

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 30.3 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. Cougar Sports Wire images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cougar Sports Wire. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

cougarsportswire.com accessibility score

84

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cougarsportswire.com 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cougarsportswire.com SEO score

93

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

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 Cougarsportswire.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 Cougarsportswire.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 Cougar Sports Wire. 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: