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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

shorttracknews.com

Short Track News - For All Your Chicagoland Racing Coverage

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

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About Website

Visit shorttracknews.com now to see the best up-to-date Short Track News content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about shorttracknews.com

Covers the Chicago area short track racing scene. Grundy County Speedway, Illiana Speedway, Rockford, Plymouth and touring series like CRA & ASA

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shorttracknews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 201 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

shorttracknews.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.shorttracknews.com

201 ms

font_styles_ns4.css

31 ms

css

35 ms

font_styles.css

51 ms

FormValidation.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Shorttracknews.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to T8.prnx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) relates to the external source Web4.realtracker.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shorttracknews.com main page is 1.8 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 36.5 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 28.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 139.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 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. Short Track News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 132.1 kB
  • After minification 131.8 kB
  • After compression 116.9 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 15.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 9.5 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Shorttracknews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (15%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Short Track News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.shorttracknews.com

www.shorttracknews.com

201 ms

font_styles_ns4.css

font_styles_ns4.css

31 ms

css

css

35 ms

font_styles.css

font_styles.css

51 ms

FormValidation.js

FormValidation.js

35 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

34 ms

ExternalRedirect.dll

ExternalRedirect.dll

24 ms

site_statistics.ffhtml

site_statistics.ffhtml

32 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

68 ms

shapes.action

shapes.action

26 ms

RDC500x.jpg

RDC500x.jpg

145 ms

shapes.action

shapes.action

27 ms

newblinker.gif

newblinker.gif

23 ms

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147 ms

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shapes.action

45 ms

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115 ms

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118 ms

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144 ms

twitt.png

twitt.png

129 ms

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118 ms

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120 ms

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177 ms

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175 ms

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173 ms

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252 ms

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230 ms

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226 ms

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213 ms

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272 ms

Back.jpg

Back.jpg

275 ms

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speakers.gif

244 ms

RDCwebsite1x.jpg

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310 ms

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251 ms

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283 ms

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302 ms

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333 ms

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302 ms

csn.jpeg

csn.jpeg

335 ms

ibc90006.js

ibc90006.js

406 ms

tc.js

tc.js

204 ms

prnx_track.js

prnx_track.js

318 ms

jQuery-1.6.3.min.js

jQuery-1.6.3.min.js

328 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

325 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

21 ms

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26 ms

t.asp

t.asp

313 ms

Accessibility Review

shorttracknews.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shorttracknews.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

shorttracknews.com SEO score

69

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

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 Shorttracknews.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 Shorttracknews.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

shorttracknews.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Short Track News. 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: