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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

learn.captainu.com

College Athletics Recruiting 101 | Sports Scouting Blog

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

480 ms

Resources Loaded

940 ms

Page Rendered

473 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Learn.captainu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 480 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

learn.captainu.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.126

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

learn.captainu.com

480 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

38 ms

light_style.css

75 ms

font-awesome.min.css

78 ms

foundation.css

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Learn.captainu.com, 13% (3 requests) were made to Captainu.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (480 ms) belongs to the original domain Learn.captainu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 380.6 kB (47%)

Content Size

805.7 kB

After Optimization

425.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Learn.captainu.com main page is 805.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 317.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 21.6 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 17.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 317.6 kB
  • After minification 313.2 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. Learn Captainu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 134.2 kB

  • Original 196.8 kB
  • After minification 190.2 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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 134.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 224.1 kB

  • Original 268.3 kB
  • After minification 264.1 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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. Learn.captainu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (64%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Learn Captainu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

learn.captainu.com

learn.captainu.com

480 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

38 ms

light_style.css

light_style.css

75 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

78 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

117 ms

style.css

style.css

81 ms

captain.css

captain.css

82 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

29 ms

front.js

front.js

87 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

108 ms

fastclick.js

fastclick.js

112 ms

cas-faq-tpl.js

cas-faq-tpl.js

171 ms

collapse.js

collapse.js

194 ms

foundation.js

foundation.js

196 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

195 ms

ga.js

ga.js

200 ms

icon_twitter-79ac850e05b6dc3bb5616d9d0422aea7.svg

icon_twitter-79ac850e05b6dc3bb5616d9d0422aea7.svg

191 ms

js

js

182 ms

icon_instagram-d1ad8811804a940a61166a3b2f7106e0.svg

icon_instagram-d1ad8811804a940a61166a3b2f7106e0.svg

184 ms

icon_facebook-6b73013b9ef8641404ce496c7f8fafb2.svg

icon_facebook-6b73013b9ef8641404ce496c7f8fafb2.svg

185 ms

logo.png

logo.png

182 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

264 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

learn.captainu.com accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

learn.captainu.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

learn.captainu.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

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 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 Learn.captainu.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 Learn.captainu.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

learn.captainu.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Learn Captainu. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: