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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

footballdirectnews.com

FootballDirectNews.com - Football news | Breaking News from Around The World

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

511 ms

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About Website

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

Football Direct News covers all major international football leagues and competitions in detail. Find breaking news, videos, information around the beautiful game.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Footballdirectnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

footballdirectnews.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.footballdirectnews.com

1305 ms

style.min.css

74 ms

style-wpzoom-social-icons.css

97 ms

rounded-thumbs.min.css

97 ms

theme-utils.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Footballdirectnews.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Footballdirectnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 406.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Footballdirectnews.com main page is 3.2 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 72.7 kB
  • After minification 65.3 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 62.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 319.3 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Obviously, Football Direct News needs image optimization as it can save up to 319.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 81.2 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 70.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 11.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 91.5 kB
  • After minification 91.2 kB
  • After compression 77.8 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. Footballdirectnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (51%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Football Direct News. 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 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.footballdirectnews.com

www.footballdirectnews.com

1305 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

74 ms

style-wpzoom-social-icons.css

style-wpzoom-social-icons.css

97 ms

rounded-thumbs.min.css

rounded-thumbs.min.css

97 ms

theme-utils.css

theme-utils.css

97 ms

css

css

40 ms

style.css

style.css

131 ms

media-queries.css

media-queries.css

98 ms

css

css

59 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

112 ms

wpzoom-socicon.css

wpzoom-socicon.css

129 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

128 ms

academicons.min.css

academicons.min.css

133 ms

font-awesome-3.min.css

font-awesome-3.min.css

133 ms

wpzoom-social-icons-styles.css

wpzoom-social-icons-styles.css

150 ms

custom.css

custom.css

165 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

195 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

170 ms

seo-automated-link-building.js

seo-automated-link-building.js

169 ms

init.js

init.js

188 ms

jquery.mmenu.min.all.js

jquery.mmenu.min.all.js

192 ms

flickity.pkgd.min.js

flickity.pkgd.min.js

235 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

234 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

233 ms

search_button.js

search_button.js

239 ms

functions.js

functions.js

238 ms

social-icons-widget-frontend.js

social-icons-widget-frontend.js

239 ms

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fdnlogo.png

116 ms

mrjfb.jpg

mrjfb.jpg

115 ms

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114 ms

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68 ms

Accessibility Review

footballdirectnews.com accessibility score

88

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

footballdirectnews.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

SEO Factors

footballdirectnews.com SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Footballdirectnews.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 Footballdirectnews.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

footballdirectnews.com

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