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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

icehogs.com

Rockford IceHogs | AHL Affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

805 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

590 ms

About Website

Visit icehogs.com now to see the best up-to-date Ice Hogs content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about icehogs.com

The official website of the Rockford IceHogs. See the latest news, scores, stats and get tickets to every IceHogs home game.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Icehogs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 805 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

icehogs.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,510 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

icehogs.com

805 ms

system.css

72 ms

style.css

138 ms

layout.css

102 ms

common.min.js

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Icehogs.com, 30% (58 requests) were made to Icehogs.com.ismmedia.com and 12% (23 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Icehogs.com.ismmedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 677.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Icehogs.com main page is 5.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.7 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 65.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 96.3 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Ice Hogs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 266.3 kB

  • Original 438.2 kB
  • After minification 434.2 kB
  • After compression 171.9 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 266.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 249.8 kB

  • Original 300.1 kB
  • After minification 292.2 kB
  • After compression 50.2 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. Icehogs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (42%)

Requests Now

175

After Optimization

102

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 175 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ice Hogs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

icehogs.com accessibility score

75

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

icehogs.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

icehogs.com SEO score

91

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

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 Icehogs.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 Icehogs.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 Ice Hogs. 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: