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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

cubsinsider.com

Cubs Insider - Serious Chicago Cubs News, Rumors, Culture & Commentary -

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

781 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

561 ms

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About Website

Visit cubsinsider.com now to see the best up-to-date Cubs Insider content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cubsinsider.com

Bringing you serious Chicago Cubs news, rumors, culture, commentary, and thoughtful analysis without taking ourselves too seriously.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cubsinsider.com page load time and found that the first response time was 781 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cubsinsider.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cubsinsider.com

781 ms

gppstub.js

111 ms

boise.js

56 ms

abilene.js

109 ms

tulsa.js

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Cubsinsider.com, 14% (5 requests) were made to Ezojs.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to The.gatekeeperconsent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (781 ms) belongs to the original domain Cubsinsider.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

868.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cubsinsider.com main page is 1.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 725.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 116.0 kB

  • Original 149.1 kB
  • After minification 149.1 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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 116.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 725.5 kB
  • After minification 682.7 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. Cubs Insider images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 912 B

  • Original 127.0 kB
  • After minification 127.0 kB
  • After compression 126.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 199 B

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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. Cubsinsider.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (82%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cubs Insider. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cubsinsider.com

cubsinsider.com

781 ms

gppstub.js

gppstub.js

111 ms

boise.js

boise.js

56 ms

abilene.js

abilene.js

109 ms

tulsa.js

tulsa.js

115 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

58 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

47 ms

js

js

105 ms

ccpaplus.js

ccpaplus.js

107 ms

comment_count.js

comment_count.js

42 ms

comment_embed.js

comment_embed.js

41 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

41 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

100 ms

sliders.min.js

sliders.min.js

98 ms

shortcodes.js

shortcodes.js

95 ms

desktop.min.js

desktop.min.js

122 ms

live-search.js

live-search.js

98 ms

platform.js

platform.js

95 ms

forms.js

forms.js

97 ms

v.js

v.js

103 ms

lazy_load.js

lazy_load.js

36 ms

IMG_0305-2-scaled.jpg

IMG_0305-2-scaled.jpg

91 ms

css_onload.js

css_onload.js

30 ms

CI-FINAL-Site-Logo-21.03.png

CI-FINAL-Site-Logo-21.03.png

90 ms

StartingLineupCubs-390x220.jpg

StartingLineupCubs-390x220.jpg

29 ms

W-Flag.jpg

W-Flag.jpg

39 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

33 ms

perfect-pullquotes.css

perfect-pullquotes.css

15 ms

base.min.css

base.min.css

33 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

55 ms

widgets.min.css

widgets.min.css

22 ms

helpers.min.css

helpers.min.css

52 ms

fontawesome.css

fontawesome.css

59 ms

shortcodes.min.css

shortcodes.min.css

63 ms

tielabs-fonticon.ttf

tielabs-fonticon.ttf

20 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

88 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

99 ms

Accessibility Review

cubsinsider.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

cubsinsider.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cubsinsider.com SEO score

100

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

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 Cubsinsider.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 Cubsinsider.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

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