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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

pressball.info

Highlands & Islands Press Ball & Media Awards

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

62 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Press Ball content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pressball.info

Now in its 32nd year, the event connects print, broadcast and online media outlets from Shetland to Argyll and from Moray to the Outer Hebrides.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pressball.info page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pressball.info performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value700 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pressball.info

106 ms

minified.js

31 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

30 ms

polyfill.min.js

70 ms

thunderbolt-commons.2ae1974e.bundle.min.js

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pressball.info, 35% (17 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 33% (16 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (715 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 639.7 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

498.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Pressball.info main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 792.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 628.5 kB

  • Original 792.4 kB
  • After minification 790.6 kB
  • After compression 163.9 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 628.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 90.0 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. Press Ball images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 248.3 kB
  • After minification 248.3 kB
  • After compression 244.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (32%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Press Ball. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pressball.info accessibility score

85

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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.

Best Practices

pressball.info 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pressball.info SEO score

93

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

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 Pressball.info 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 Pressball.info 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 Press Ball. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: