Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

pittsburghhockeynow.com

Pittsburgh Hockey Now - Pittsburgh Penguins News and Analysis

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

303 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

451 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pittsburghhockeynow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 303 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pittsburghhockeynow.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,220 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pittsburghhockeynow.com

303 ms

style.min.css

74 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

80 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

85 ms

3e49b8e9-619b-4d7d-ad61-ad510361dcc0.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Pittsburghhockeynow.com, 18% (25 requests) were made to Hb.wpmucdn.com and 10% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (438 ms) belongs to the original domain Pittsburghhockeynow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 502.5 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

557.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Pittsburghhockeynow.com main page is 1.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 483.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 403.2 kB

  • Original 483.7 kB
  • After minification 466.6 kB
  • After compression 80.5 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 403.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 184.7 kB
  • After minification 183.2 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. Pittsburgh Hockey Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 75.5 kB

  • Original 253.0 kB
  • After minification 253.0 kB
  • After compression 177.5 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 75.5 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 138.8 kB
  • After minification 138.8 kB
  • After compression 116.4 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. Pittsburghhockeynow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.4 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (31%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

83

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pittsburgh Hockey Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pittsburghhockeynow.com accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

pittsburghhockeynow.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pittsburghhockeynow.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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