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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

mlbshop.com

MLBShop.com | MLB Store, Baseball Hats, MLB Jerseys, MLB Gifts & Apparel at the Official Online Store of the MLB

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

553 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing MLBShop content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mlbshop.com

MLBshop.com is the source for official Major League Baseball gear including authentic jerseys, baseball hats, MLB t-shirts, baseball memorabilia, baseball collectibles, baseball cards, women's an...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mlbshop.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 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

mlbshop.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,220 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.252

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mlbshop.com

100 ms

index.jsp

168 ms

shop.mlb.com

141 ms

webfont.js

120 ms

mlb_shop-md5-6214110ba5f709b2e46a4cd6406447e5.min.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mlbshop.com, 38% (24 requests) were made to Images.footballfanatics.com and 14% (9 requests) were made to Shop.mlb.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (420 ms) relates to the external source Images.footballfanatics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 987.8 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mlbshop.com main page is 2.5 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

  • Original 142.6 kB
  • After minification 123.7 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.9 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 117.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 94.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. MLBShop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 698.2 kB

  • Original 965.9 kB
  • After minification 932.6 kB
  • After compression 267.8 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 698.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 77.3 kB

  • Original 93.2 kB
  • After minification 92.0 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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. Mlbshop.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (55%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MLBShop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mlbshop.com

mlbshop.com

100 ms

index.jsp

index.jsp

168 ms

shop.mlb.com

shop.mlb.com

141 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

120 ms

mlb_shop-md5-6214110ba5f709b2e46a4cd6406447e5.min.css

mlb_shop-md5-6214110ba5f709b2e46a4cd6406447e5.min.css

26 ms

jquery-md5-81c589f90e3c9acbc4165945082d05b0.min.js

jquery-md5-81c589f90e3c9acbc4165945082d05b0.min.js

59 ms

base-md5-94756159ba75b54b54feeed45cf155dd.min.js

base-md5-94756159ba75b54b54feeed45cf155dd.min.js

70 ms

shoprunner_init-md5-df1e6bf68d660408e153b5a19d9eeb9a.js

shoprunner_init-md5-df1e6bf68d660408e153b5a19d9eeb9a.js

110 ms

edutl-md5-ad5cbb625be43f0c9ec614f42f918ad8.js

edutl-md5-ad5cbb625be43f0c9ec614f42f918ad8.js

68 ms

mmcore.js

mmcore.js

68 ms

p13n.js

p13n.js

101 ms

slick.css

slick.css

122 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

115 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

120 ms

getseal

getseal

124 ms

s_code_v2.0.7.0.js

s_code_v2.0.7.0.js

66 ms

collect.js

collect.js

74 ms

F2ZHU-FMLG3-PP7GV-Y6W9F-6MM43

F2ZHU-FMLG3-PP7GV-Y6W9F-6MM43

20 ms

mmcore_old.js

mmcore_old.js

10 ms

MLB.css

MLB.css

26 ms

MLB.js

MLB.js

39 ms

config.js

config.js

17 ms

37 ms

mlb_bg.jpg

mlb_bg.jpg

190 ms

mlb_shop.png

mlb_shop.png

189 ms

banner_974.png

banner_974.png

173 ms

23.gif

23.gif

113 ms

logo-mlb_shop.png

logo-mlb_shop.png

112 ms

Include_FS50_Limited.jpg

Include_FS50_Limited.jpg

171 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

112 ms

0065_Aspot_OpeningDay.jpg

0065_Aspot_OpeningDay.jpg

420 ms

0065_Aspot_Majestic.jpg

0065_Aspot_Majestic.jpg

112 ms

MAJ-800X400-FAN-CB-Player-Final_RESIZE.jpg

MAJ-800X400-FAN-CB-Player-Final_RESIZE.jpg

174 ms

sprite-MLBx44.png

sprite-MLBx44.png

175 ms

0065_Bspot_UA.jpg

0065_Bspot_UA.jpg

170 ms

0065_Bspot_Nike.jpg

0065_Bspot_Nike.jpg

170 ms

0065_Cspot.jpg

0065_Cspot.jpg

176 ms

0065_Dspot_Cooperstown.jpg

0065_Dspot_Cooperstown.jpg

172 ms

0065_Dspot_NameNumber.jpg

0065_Dspot_NameNumber.jpg

171 ms

0065_Dspot_Pink.jpg

0065_Dspot_Pink.jpg

173 ms

0054_Dspot_Collectibles.jpg

0054_Dspot_Collectibles.jpg

175 ms

Player_Shop_Static_022516.jpg

Player_Shop_Static_022516.jpg

177 ms

Arrow_Left_new.png

Arrow_Left_new.png

70 ms

Arrow_Right_new.png

Arrow_Right_new.png

71 ms

mlb_shop.png

mlb_shop.png

72 ms

getseal

getseal

87 ms

ffmcg03001.js

ffmcg03001.js

6 ms

tp

tp

8 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

ffsp003003.js

ffsp003003.js

39 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

22 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

140 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

140 ms

tp

tp

136 ms

collect

collect

151 ms

hotjar-165291.js

hotjar-165291.js

119 ms

track_page_view

track_page_view

132 ms

sso.html

sso.html

36 ms

ui-alert-icon.png

ui-alert-icon.png

29 ms

ui-info-icon.png

ui-info-icon.png

6 ms

p13n_generated.js

p13n_generated.js

32 ms

modules-043c1e6abe660c48857202e419ff9d8a.js

modules-043c1e6abe660c48857202e419ff9d8a.js

30 ms

sr_sso.min.js

sr_sso.min.js

5 ms

s28811237884219

s28811237884219

86 ms

Accessibility Review

mlbshop.com accessibility score

84

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

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

mlbshop.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mlbshop.com SEO score

91

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

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 Mlbshop.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 Mlbshop.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

mlbshop.com

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