Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

skijorusa.org

Skijor USA - XC ski sled dog racing in the United States > Home

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

511 ms

skijorusa.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Skijor USA content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about skijorusa.org

Skijor USA is the leading promoter of Skijor dog racing in the United States. We welcome both XC skiers and sled dog participants in both recreation and racing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skijorusa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skijorusa.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value33,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skijorusa.org

141 ms

default.css

32 ms

skin.css

42 ms

Grayblue_menu_1.css

40 ms

jquery-1.2.6.min.js

72 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 Skijorusa.org, 10% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (513 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 389.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

735.2 kB

After Optimization

346.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Skijorusa.org main page is 735.2 kB. 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 379.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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. This web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 267.5 kB
  • After minification 240.4 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. Skijor USA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 45.5 kB

  • Original 88.4 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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 45.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 316.7 kB

  • Original 379.3 kB
  • After minification 378.8 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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. Skijorusa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 316.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (43%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skijor USA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

skijorusa.org accessibility score

54

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

skijorusa.org 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

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

skijorusa.org SEO score

67

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 Skijorusa.org 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 Skijorusa.org 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 Skijor USA. 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: