Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

racethread.com

RaceThread - Racing Updates & Reviews Online

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

racethread.com screenshot

About Website

Visit racethread.com now to see the best up-to-date Race Thread content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about racethread.com

RaceThread is where you will find the latest information and reviews on running, obstacle, mud, triathlon, swimming, and cycling races. Share your race experience!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Racethread.com page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

racethread.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

racethread.com

138 ms

www.racethread.com

285 ms

style.css

40 ms

responsive.css

79 ms

font-awesome.css

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Racethread.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) belongs to the original domain Racethread.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Racethread.com main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 35.9 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 29.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Race Thread images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 672 B

  • Original 144.1 kB
  • After minification 144.1 kB
  • After compression 143.4 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. Racethread.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (33%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Race Thread. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

racethread.com accessibility score

85

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

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

racethread.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

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