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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

bostondirtdogs.boston.com

Dirt Dogs | Boston Red Sox stats, analysis, game summaries, and mlb trade rumors

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostondirtdogs.boston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 3.6 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

bostondirtdogs.boston.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostondirtdogs.boston.com

99 ms

bcom_dirtdogs_styles.css

50 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

7 ms

bcom-dfp.js

79 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 219 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Bostondirtdogs.boston.com, 55% (120 requests) were made to Nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com and 13% (28 requests) were made to Cache.boston.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Nbcsports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostondirtdogs.boston.com main page is 2.8 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 57.7 kB

  • Original 71.4 kB
  • After minification 41.9 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 29.5 kB, which is 41% 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 57.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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 Dirt Dogs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 586.9 kB
  • After minification 586.9 kB
  • After compression 582.2 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.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 68.0 kB
  • After minification 68.0 kB
  • After compression 65.8 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. Bostondirtdogs.boston.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (41%)

Requests Now

203

After Optimization

120

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 203 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Dirt Dogs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bostondirtdogs.boston.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

bostondirtdogs.boston.com best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

bostondirtdogs.boston.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Bostondirtdogs.boston.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 Bostondirtdogs.boston.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

bostondirtdogs.boston.com

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