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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

racer.com

RACER | Racing News

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

484 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Racer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 1.7 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

racer.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

racer.com

9 ms

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27 ms

10 ms

style.min.css

14 ms

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Racer.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Creative.prf.hn.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Racer.com main page is 1.4 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 750.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 84.4 kB

  • Original 107.0 kB
  • After minification 102.6 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 84.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 750.0 kB
  • After minification 698.4 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. RACER images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 492.2 kB
  • After minification 492.1 kB
  • After compression 451.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 234 B

  • Original 14.8 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Racer.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (44%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RACER. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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9 ms

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27 ms

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101 ms

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193 ms

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193 ms

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91 ms

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376 ms

83 ms

e-202419.js

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85 ms

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84 ms

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90 ms

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68 ms

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1005 ms

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38 ms

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109 ms

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113 ms

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192 ms

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202 ms

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209 ms

Norris.jpg

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209 ms

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211 ms

racer_horizontal_logo.png

racer_horizontal_logo.png

272 ms

privacy-link.svg

privacy-link.svg

271 ms

aleo-regular-webfont.woff

aleo-regular-webfont.woff

272 ms

aleo-bold-webfont.woff

aleo-bold-webfont.woff

271 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

110 ms

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pixel

281 ms

count.js

count.js

189 ms

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114 ms

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114 ms

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futura_today_demi_bold.woff

114 ms

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115 ms

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115 ms

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83 ms

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80 ms

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15 ms

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190 ms

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19 ms

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5 ms

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rubicon

4 ms

Accessibility Review

racer.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.

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

racer.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

racer.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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Racer.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 Racer.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

racer.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of RACER. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: