Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

lowkick.com

UFC News & MMA News, Results & Exclusives | LowKickMMA

Page Load Speed

56.6 sec in total

First Response

384 ms

Resources Loaded

43.1 sec

Page Rendered

13.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lowkick.com page load time and found that the first response time was 384 ms and then it took 56.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lowkick.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lowkick.com

384 ms

www.lowkickmma.com

2216 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

1160 ms

css

961 ms

apester-javascript-sdk.min.js

2826 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lowkick.com, 31% (30 requests) were made to Cdn.lowkickmma.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.9 sec) relates to the external source Ajax.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.8 MB (52%)

Content Size

9.2 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Lowkick.com main page is 9.2 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. 80% 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 608.0 kB

  • Original 706.8 kB
  • After minification 705.5 kB
  • After compression 98.7 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 608.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Low Kick images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 3.0 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 136.1 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. Lowkick.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (41%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Low Kick. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lowkick.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

lowkick.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

lowkick.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Lowkick.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 Lowkick.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 Low Kick. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: