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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kentuckyderby.com

2025 Kentucky Derby & Oaks | May 2 and May 3, 2025 | KentuckyDerby.com

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

865 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kentucky Derby content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kentuckyderby.com

2025 Kentucky Derby is the 151st renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports and will run on May 3rd, 2025. Find live odds, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kentuckyderby.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 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

kentuckyderby.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,060 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kentuckyderby.com

9 ms

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17 ms

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60 ms

gtm.js

92 ms

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259 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Kentuckyderby.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) relates to the external source D21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 286.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kentuckyderby.com main page is 2.5 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 230.0 kB

  • Original 271.0 kB
  • After minification 260.3 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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 230.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 781 B

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Kentucky Derby images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 468.9 kB
  • After minification 468.9 kB
  • After compression 413.2 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 55.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Kentuckyderby.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (32%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kentucky Derby. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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60 ms

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Accessibility Review

kentuckyderby.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

kentuckyderby.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

kentuckyderby.com SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

kentuckyderby.com

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