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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

rugbyweek.co.za

Sports Digital Media - Sports Digital Media offers access to an online world of sport, news and entertainment.

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

685 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

892 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rugbyweek.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 685 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rugbyweek.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rugbyweek.co.za

685 ms

www.rugbyweek.com

1726 ms

analytics.js

42 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

133 ms

ultimate-tables.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 185 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rugbyweek.co.za, 29% (53 requests) were made to Rugbyweek.com and 10% (19 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Rugbyweek.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 957.6 kB (47%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rugbyweek.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 867.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 192.5 kB

  • Original 244.4 kB
  • After minification 236.9 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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 192.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 677.1 kB
  • After minification 670.3 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. Rugbyweek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 553.8 kB

  • Original 867.1 kB
  • After minification 799.3 kB
  • After compression 313.3 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 553.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 204.5 kB

  • Original 242.8 kB
  • After minification 204.8 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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. Rugbyweek.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 204.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (53%)

Requests Now

171

After Optimization

80

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 171 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rugbyweek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

rugbyweek.co.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

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

rugbyweek.co.za 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

SEO Factors

rugbyweek.co.za SEO score

89

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 Rugbyweek.co.za 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 Rugbyweek.co.za 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

rugbyweek.co.za

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