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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

falconoldboys.com

Falconians.com - the site for Falcon Alumni everywhere

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

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

Falconians.com is the Alumni website for those who attended Falcon College in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. Register to connect with other Falcon Alumni.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Falconoldboys.com page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 9.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

falconoldboys.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.89

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

falconoldboys.com

241 ms

www.falconians.com

2111 ms

style.css

307 ms

style.min.css

131 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Falconoldboys.com, 58% (61 requests) were made to Falconians.com and 10% (11 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source Falconians.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 627.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Falconoldboys.com main page is 4.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 132.0 kB

  • Original 154.8 kB
  • After minification 150.6 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 132.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Falcon Oldboys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 109.8 kB

  • Original 255.6 kB
  • After minification 255.2 kB
  • After compression 145.9 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 109.8 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 328.9 kB

  • Original 491.6 kB
  • After minification 491.4 kB
  • After compression 162.7 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. Falconoldboys.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 328.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (57%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Falcon Oldboys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

falconoldboys.com accessibility score

79

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

falconoldboys.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

falconoldboys.com SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Falconoldboys.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 Falconoldboys.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 Falcon Oldboys. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: