Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

ballbearingsmag.com

Ball Bearings Magazine – Ball State University's student magazine

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

252 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ballbearingsmag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ballbearingsmag.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.324

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ballbearingsmag.com

1094 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

129 ms

style.css

152 ms

style.css

140 ms

responsive.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Ballbearingsmag.com, 29% (32 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ballbearingsmag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 454.6 kB (69%)

Content Size

662.7 kB

After Optimization

208.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Ballbearingsmag.com main page is 662.7 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. 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. Javascripts take 322.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 93.9 kB

  • Original 115.8 kB
  • After minification 111.1 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 93.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 45.8 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 Bearings Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 211.8 kB

  • Original 322.8 kB
  • After minification 304.8 kB
  • After compression 110.9 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 211.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 145.5 kB

  • Original 174.9 kB
  • After minification 152.4 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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. Ballbearingsmag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 145.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (63%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ball Bearings Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ballbearingsmag.com accessibility score

90

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ballbearingsmag.com 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

SEO Factors

ballbearingsmag.com SEO score

91

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

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 Ballbearingsmag.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 Ballbearingsmag.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 Ball Bearings Mag. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: