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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

hittingacademy.org

Online Hitting Academy, Baseball and Softball Hitting Instruction and Drills

Page Load Speed

690 ms in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

444 ms

Page Rendered

214 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hittingacademy.org homepage info - get ready to check Hitting Academy best content right away, or after learning these important things about hittingacademy.org

The web's best source for baseball and fastpitch softball hitting instruction. Features from pro instructors, batting tips, hitting drills, chat, free library, plus more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hittingacademy.org page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 658 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hittingacademy.org performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hittingacademy

32 ms

index.html

86 ms

bg170.jpg

83 ms

halogo66.gif

81 ms

member1.gif

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hittingacademy.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (178 ms) belongs to the original domain Hittingacademy.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.4 kB (66%)

Content Size

26.3 kB

After Optimization

8.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Hittingacademy.org main page is 26.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 20.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 19.0 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 16.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 723 B

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Obviously, Hitting Academy needs image optimization as it can save up to 723 B or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (71%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

5

  • Images

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hitting Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hittingacademy

hittingacademy

32 ms

index.html

index.html

86 ms

bg170.jpg

bg170.jpg

83 ms

halogo66.gif

halogo66.gif

81 ms

member1.gif

member1.gif

55 ms

visitor1.gif

visitor1.gif

56 ms

academyguide1.gif

academyguide1.gif

56 ms

features.gif

features.gif

178 ms

classrooms1.gif

classrooms1.gif

82 ms

guestfeature1.gif

guestfeature1.gif

61 ms

teamdoc1.gif

teamdoc1.gif

155 ms

dugout1.gif

dugout1.gif

85 ms

archives1.gif

archives1.gif

88 ms

forum1.gif

forum1.gif

86 ms

faqhelp1.gif

faqhelp1.gif

88 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

113 ms

sitemap1.gif

sitemap1.gif

112 ms

library1.gif

library1.gif

114 ms

links1.gif

links1.gif

115 ms

Accessibility Review

hittingacademy.org accessibility score

54

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

hittingacademy.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

hittingacademy.org SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hittingacademy.org 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 Hittingacademy.org 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

hittingacademy.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hitting Academy. 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: