Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

football.guardian.co.uk

Football news, match reports and fixtures | The Guardian

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

696 ms

football.guardian.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Football news, results, fixtures, blogs, podcasts and comment on the Premier League, European and World football from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

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Key Findings

We analyzed Football.guardian.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

football.guardian.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,310 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.899

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

football.guardian.co.uk

183 ms

85 ms

football

146 ms

app.js

381 ms

GuardianEgyptianWeb.woff.json

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Football.guardian.co.uk, 50% (41 requests) were made to I.guim.co.uk and 17% (14 requests) were made to Assets.guim.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) relates to the external source Assets.guim.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (27%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Football.guardian.co.uk main page is 5.4 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. 75% 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 626.5 kB

  • Original 968.6 kB
  • After minification 967.4 kB
  • After compression 342.1 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 626.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 53.7 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Football Guardian images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 553.6 kB

  • Original 817.0 kB
  • After minification 817.0 kB
  • After compression 263.4 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 553.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 214.6 kB

  • Original 250.5 kB
  • After minification 248.6 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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. Football.guardian.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 214.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (14%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Football Guardian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

football.guardian.co.uk 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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

football.guardian.co.uk 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

football.guardian.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Football.guardian.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Football.guardian.co.uk 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

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