Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

bostonbruins.com

Official Boston Bruins Website | Boston Bruins

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

587 ms

bostonbruins.com screenshot

About Website

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The official National Hockey League website including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostonbruins.com page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostonbruins.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostonbruins.com

84 ms

bruins.nhl.com

146 ms

_jslib-plugins.min.js

109 ms

_club-plugins.min.js

85 ms

_club.min.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 293 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bostonbruins.com, 11% (33 requests) were made to 1.cdn.nhle.com and 8% (24 requests) were made to Bruins.nhl.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (552 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (27%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Bostonbruins.com main page is 6.3 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. 85% 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 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 255.0 kB

  • Original 307.9 kB
  • After minification 293.2 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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 255.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Boston Bruins images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 743.6 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 1.3 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 121.4 kB

  • Original 151.9 kB
  • After minification 146.8 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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. Bostonbruins.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 140 (51%)

Requests Now

276

After Optimization

136

The browser has sent 276 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Bruins. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bostonbruins.com accessibility score

77

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

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a valid value for its [lang] attribute.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

bostonbruins.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bostonbruins.com SEO score

85

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bostonbruins.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 Bostonbruins.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Boston Bruins. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: