Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

runsignup.com

RunSignup

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

696 ms

Page Rendered

369 ms

runsignup.com screenshot

About Website

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

RunSignup provides a simple way to register for races. You can create and manage your race for free.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Runsignup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

runsignup.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

runsignup.com

16 ms

runsignup.com

89 ms

css

76 ms

css

87 ms

gz-registrationUI2.less.rsu.min.bwUkuB.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Runsignup.com, 70% (39 requests) were made to D368g9lw5ileu7.cloudfront.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (417 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.0 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

509.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Runsignup.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 416.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 34.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 304.9 kB
  • After minification 277.3 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. Run Signup images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 178.3 kB

  • Original 322.3 kB
  • After minification 322.1 kB
  • After compression 143.9 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 178.3 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 342.2 kB

  • Original 416.8 kB
  • After minification 409.2 kB
  • After compression 74.6 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. Runsignup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 342.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (43%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Run Signup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

runsignup.com accessibility score

87

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

runsignup.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

runsignup.com SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Runsignup.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Runsignup.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 description is not detected on the main page of Run Signup. 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: