Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

fairfieldstags.com

Fairfield University Athletics - Official Athletics Website

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

371 ms

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About Website

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The official athletics website for the Fairfield University Stags

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fairfieldstags.com page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fairfieldstags.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,100 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.884

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fairfieldstags.com

208 ms

css

25 ms

jquery.min.js

9 ms

bootstrap.min.css

202 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Fairfieldstags.com, 24% (40 requests) were made to Image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com and 8% (14 requests) were made to Ums.adtechus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (599 ms) belongs to the original domain Fairfieldstags.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 921.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Fairfieldstags.com main page is 2.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 206.9 kB

  • Original 246.3 kB
  • After minification 218.6 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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 27.7 kB, which is 11% 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 206.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 124.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Fairfield Stags images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 422.6 kB

  • Original 636.8 kB
  • After minification 588.0 kB
  • After compression 214.1 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 422.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 167.6 kB

  • Original 200.8 kB
  • After minification 184.0 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Fairfieldstags.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 167.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (49%)

Requests Now

152

After Optimization

77

The browser has sent 152 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fairfield Stags. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fairfieldstags.com accessibility score

82

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

fairfieldstags.com best practices score

67

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fairfieldstags.com SEO score

86

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fairfieldstags.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 Fairfieldstags.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 description is not detected on the main page of Fairfield Stags. 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: