Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

lsusports.net

LSU – The Official Athletics Website

Page Load Speed

107.1 sec in total

First Response

661 ms

Resources Loaded

79.7 sec

Page Rendered

26.8 sec

lsusports.net screenshot

About Website

Welcome to lsusports.net homepage info - get ready to check LSU Sports best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about lsusports.net

The Official Athletic Site of the LSU Tigers, partner of WMT Digital. The most comprehensive coverage of LSU on the web with highlights, scores, game summaries, and rosters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lsusports.net page load time and found that the first response time was 661 ms and then it took 106.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 7 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

lsusports.net performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,860 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lsusports.net

661 ms

css

387 ms

jquery.min.js

334 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1132 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

1035 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Lsusports.net, 14% (29 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (24 requests) were made to Image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Scontent.cdninstagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (33%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Lsusports.net 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. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 204.5 kB

  • Original 231.2 kB
  • After minification 209.3 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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 204.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 881.9 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Obviously, LSU Sports needs image optimization as it can save up to 881.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 927.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 477.2 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 927.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 450.5 kB

  • Original 532.9 kB
  • After minification 442.4 kB
  • After compression 82.5 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. Lsusports.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 450.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (51%)

Requests Now

181

After Optimization

88

The browser has sent 181 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LSU 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 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lsusports.net accessibility score

85

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 IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

lsusports.net best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

lsusports.net SEO score

98

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

    ISO-8859-1

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of LSU 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: