Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

mlbinsiders.com

Scout.com - College Sports, Football Recruiting, NFL, Fantasy Advice & More

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

439 ms

Page Rendered

676 ms

mlbinsiders.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mlbinsiders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mlbinsiders.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mlbinsiders.com

158 ms

247sports.com

33 ms

8677.css

71 ms

bundle.css

68 ms

homepageWrapper.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mlbinsiders.com, 86% (65 requests) were made to S3media.247sports.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to 247sports.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (224 ms) relates to the external source At.cbsi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 336.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Mlbinsiders.com main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 764.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 253.6 kB

  • Original 314.8 kB
  • After minification 313.2 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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 253.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 764.3 kB
  • After minification 760.9 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. Mlbinsiders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 79.4 kB

  • Original 555.9 kB
  • After minification 555.9 kB
  • After compression 476.5 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 79.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (51%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mlbinsiders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mlbinsiders.com accessibility score

92

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

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

mlbinsiders.com 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

mlbinsiders.com SEO score

83

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

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