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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

crusaders.com

Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps | Boston, Massachusetts

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

541 ms

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About Website

Visit crusaders.com now to see the best up-to-date Crusaders content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about crusaders.com

Founded in 1940, the Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps is a World Class drum and bugle corps and a founding member of Drum Corps International.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crusaders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crusaders.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crusaders.com

18 ms

bostoncrusaders.org

858 ms

js

90 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

84 ms

jquery.jOrgChart.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Crusaders.com, 85% (128 requests) were made to Bostoncrusaders.org and 3% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (858 ms) relates to the external source Bostoncrusaders.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 368.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Crusaders.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. 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 80.4 kB

  • Original 101.5 kB
  • After minification 97.8 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 80.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 263.5 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. Crusaders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 927.7 kB
  • After minification 927.5 kB
  • After compression 916.3 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 132.4 kB
  • After minification 132.4 kB
  • After compression 119.5 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. Crusaders.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 111 (79%)

Requests Now

140

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 140 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crusaders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 77 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

crusaders.com

crusaders.com

18 ms

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858 ms

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Accessibility Review

crusaders.com accessibility score

69

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.

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

crusaders.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

crusaders.com 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

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

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 Crusaders.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 Crusaders.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

crusaders.com

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