Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

marca.com

MARCA - Diario online líder en información deportiva

Page Load Speed

48 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

45.6 sec

marca.com screenshot

About Website

Visit marca.com now to see the best up-to-date MARCA content for Spain and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about marca.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marca.com page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 47.9 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

marca.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,510 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.marca.com

94 ms

ueLogin.15b8cdc21dc99a5e4666.js

111 ms

kalturaue-marca.min.js

109 ms

main-cover.d7121337c5edaa79037c.css

132 ms

policy_v4.js

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Marca.com, 82% (111 requests) were made to E00-marca.uecdn.es and 8% (11 requests) were made to E00.uecdn.es. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (931 ms) relates to the external source Impes.tradedoubler.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 657.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

43.3 MB

After Optimization

42.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Marca.com main page is 43.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 42.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 635.9 kB

  • Original 740.3 kB
  • After minification 737.4 kB
  • After compression 104.4 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 635.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 42.5 MB
  • After minification 42.5 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. MARCA images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 44.9 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. Marca.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (11%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

109

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MARCA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

marca.com accessibility score

94

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

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

[lang] attributes do not have a valid value

Best Practices

marca.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

marca.com SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    ES

  • Language Claimed

    ES

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-15

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Marca.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Spanish is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Marca.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-15. 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 data is detected on the main page of MARCA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: