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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 41

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

boards.marathonguide.com

MarathonGuide.com - Marathons, Running Directory and Community

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

365 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

724 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boards.marathonguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 365 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boards.marathonguide.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.cfm

365 ms

newmarathon.css

120 ms

openwindow.js

121 ms

navjs.js

121 ms

milonic_src.js

213 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Boards.marathonguide.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (365 ms) relates to the external source Marathonguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 79.7 kB (58%)

Content Size

137.2 kB

After Optimization

57.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boards.marathonguide.com main page is 137.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 79.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 79.0 kB
  • After minification 78.3 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 64.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 299 B
  • After minification 299 B

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. Boards Marathon Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 56.4 kB
  • After minification 56.4 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 15.1 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 196 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Boards.marathonguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 196 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (47%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boards Marathon Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

index.cfm

index.cfm

365 ms

newmarathon.css

newmarathon.css

120 ms

openwindow.js

openwindow.js

121 ms

navjs.js

navjs.js

121 ms

milonic_src.js

milonic_src.js

213 ms

menu_data.cfm

menu_data.cfm

182 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

55 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

31 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

26 ms

MGuideLogo.gif

MGuideLogo.gif

61 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

62 ms

MauiOceanfrontMarathon468x60_230115.gif

MauiOceanfrontMarathon468x60_230115.gif

243 ms

contactusicon.gif

contactusicon.gif

60 ms

tellafriendicon.gif

tellafriendicon.gif

124 ms

topleft_w.gif

topleft_w.gif

120 ms

topright_w.gif

topright_w.gif

120 ms

av049.gif

av049.gif

133 ms

LakeTahoeMarathon180x150_221016.gif

LakeTahoeMarathon180x150_221016.gif

267 ms

clearpixel.gif

clearpixel.gif

179 ms

mgstorebooks125static.gif

mgstorebooks125static.gif

242 ms

MauiOceanfrontMarathon180x150_230115.gif

MauiOceanfrontMarathon180x150_230115.gif

246 ms

mgstorefront125static.gif

mgstorefront125static.gif

189 ms

FacebookButton100.gif

FacebookButton100.gif

241 ms

TwitterButton100.gif

TwitterButton100.gif

252 ms

mmenudom.js

mmenudom.js

213 ms

FlashMenuBG.gif

FlashMenuBG.gif

81 ms

MarathonGuide_com.cfm

MarathonGuide_com.cfm

136 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

23 ms

follow_button.html

follow_button.html

49 ms

ga.js

ga.js

16 ms

like.php

like.php

91 ms

quant.js

quant.js

13 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

rules-p-64MbHu9Hy9z1w.js

rules-p-64MbHu9Hy9z1w.js

9 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

rules-p-64MbHu9Hy9z1w.js

rules-p-64MbHu9Hy9z1w.js

17 ms

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25 ms

9ob6Hkob7wt.js

9ob6Hkob7wt.js

19 ms

FEppCFCt76d.png

FEppCFCt76d.png

19 ms

go.gif

go.gif

63 ms

Accessibility Review

boards.marathonguide.com accessibility score

41

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

boards.marathonguide.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

SEO Factors

boards.marathonguide.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Boards.marathonguide.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 Boards.marathonguide.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

boards.marathonguide.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Boards Marathon Guide. 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: