Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

irb.com

World Rugby

Page Load Speed

86.8 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

40.5 sec

Page Rendered

46.2 sec

irb.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 86.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irb.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irb.com

111 ms

www.worldrugby.org

880 ms

i18n-en.js

478 ms

t-wr.css

682 ms

3rdparty-lib.min.js

4603 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Irb.com, 36% (21 requests) were made to Pulse-static-files.s3.amazonaws.com and 32% (19 requests) were made to Cdn.pulselive.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.pulselive.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.0 MB (65%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Irb.com main page is 7.6 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 199.1 kB

  • Original 223.1 kB
  • After minification 168.2 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 54.9 kB, which is 25% 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 199.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 88.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Irb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.8 MB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 MB
  • After compression 790.0 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 2.8 MB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 265.5 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. Irb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (47%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

irb.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

irb.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

irb.com SEO score

92

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

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 Irb.com 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 Irb.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

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