Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 54

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

lehighsports.com

Lehigh University Athletics - Official Athletics Website

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

439 ms

lehighsports.com screenshot

About Website

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The official athletics website for the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lehighsports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 2.3 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

lehighsports.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lehighsports.com

211 ms

core_compressed.css

33 ms

site.css

121 ms

modernizr.js

15 ms

WebResource.axd

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 165 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (106 requests) were addressed to the original Lehighsports.com, 7% (12 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Assets.sidearmsports.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Lehighsports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 959.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Lehighsports.com main page is 7.7 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 6.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 179.3 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 206.0 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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 179.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 156.7 kB

  • Original 6.6 MB
  • After minification 6.5 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. Lehigh Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 387.3 kB

  • Original 601.3 kB
  • After minification 581.9 kB
  • After compression 214.0 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 387.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 236.2 kB

  • Original 285.0 kB
  • After minification 277.2 kB
  • After compression 48.8 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. Lehighsports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 236.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (26%)

Requests Now

158

After Optimization

117

The browser has sent 158 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lehigh Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lehighsports.com accessibility score

75

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

lehighsports.com best practices score

54

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

lehighsports.com SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lehighsports.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 Lehighsports.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 description is not detected on the main page of Lehigh Sports. 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: