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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

matchref.com

MatchRef | Sporting Association Management Made Easy

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

901 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Matchref.com page load time and found that the first response time was 901 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

matchref.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.198

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

matchref.com

901 ms

matchref.com

1196 ms

bootstrap.css

214 ms

system.base.css

423 ms

system.menus.css

624 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Matchref.com, 9% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Matchref.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.9 kB (24%)

Content Size

906.8 kB

After Optimization

689.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Matchref.com main page is 906.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 552.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 50.5 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 39.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 552.8 kB
  • After minification 472.2 kB

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, Match Ref needs image optimization as it can save up to 80.6 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 70.4 kB

  • Original 211.3 kB
  • After minification 211.1 kB
  • After compression 140.9 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 70.4 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 92.2 kB
  • After minification 91.9 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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. Matchref.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.2 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (69%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Match Ref. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

matchref.com

matchref.com

901 ms

matchref.com

matchref.com

1196 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

214 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

423 ms

system.menus.css

system.menus.css

624 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

622 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

631 ms

comment.css

comment.css

636 ms

field.css

field.css

638 ms

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node.css

635 ms

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search.css

835 ms

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839 ms

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843 ms

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871 ms

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862 ms

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874 ms

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44 ms

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1046 ms

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1044 ms

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1055 ms

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44 ms

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1071 ms

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1080 ms

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1083 ms

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1255 ms

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1257 ms

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1265 ms

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1276 ms

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1294 ms

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1466 ms

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1463 ms

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1474 ms

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1483 ms

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1499 ms

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1504 ms

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1673 ms

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1674 ms

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2103 ms

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69 ms

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41 ms

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1933 ms

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219 ms

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219 ms

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622 ms

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636 ms

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424 ms

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839 ms

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632 ms

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645 ms

map-bottom.png

map-bottom.png

639 ms

fwwrb-logo.png

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831 ms

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841 ms

widgets.js

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81 ms

md-arrow.png

md-arrow.png

696 ms

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916 ms

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70 ms

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114 ms

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embeds

embeds

29 ms

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15 ms

Accessibility Review

matchref.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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

matchref.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

matchref.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Matchref.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 Matchref.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

matchref.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Match Ref. 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: