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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

soccerref.org

Soccer Referee Homepage - Soccer Referee

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

830 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

487 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soccerref.org page load time and found that the first response time was 830 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soccerref.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.225

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soccerref.org

830 ms

style-blocks.build.css

130 ms

style.css

284 ms

style.min.css

404 ms

dashicons.min.css

448 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Soccerref.org, 10% (4 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (830 ms) belongs to the original domain Soccerref.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

674.4 kB

After Optimization

603.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soccerref.org main page is 674.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 302.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 44.9 kB
  • After minification 44.7 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 33.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 249.1 kB
  • After minification 232.3 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. Soccer Ref images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 302.5 kB
  • After minification 302.5 kB
  • After compression 294.6 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 78.0 kB
  • After minification 78.0 kB
  • After compression 65.6 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. Soccerref.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (74%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soccer Ref. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

soccerref.org

soccerref.org

830 ms

style-blocks.build.css

style-blocks.build.css

130 ms

style.css

style.css

284 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

404 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

448 ms

to-top-public.css

to-top-public.css

316 ms

css

css

45 ms

ionicons.min.css

ionicons.min.css

297 ms

front-end.css

front-end.css

317 ms

style.css

style.css

318 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

476 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

426 ms

to-top-public.js

to-top-public.js

428 ms

js

js

83 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

84 ms

dismiss.js

dismiss.js

426 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

573 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

574 ms

superfish.args.min.js

superfish.args.min.js

574 ms

skip-links.min.js

skip-links.min.js

574 ms

global.js

global.js

574 ms

block-effects.js

block-effects.js

626 ms

responsive-menus.min.js

responsive-menus.min.js

653 ms

ionicons.min.css

ionicons.min.css

12 ms

soccer_field_ref0-1200x600-1.jpg

soccer_field_ref0-1200x600-1.jpg

477 ms

GameCardsFront-Highlighted-800x400-1-150x150.png

GameCardsFront-Highlighted-800x400-1-150x150.png

314 ms

rulebook-150x150.png

rulebook-150x150.png

316 ms

refuniforms-150x150.png

refuniforms-150x150.png

280 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

143 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

84 ms

js

js

48 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

66 ms

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7Aulp_0qiz-aVz7u3PJLcUMYOFmQkEk30e0.ttf

67 ms

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7Aulp_0qiz-aVz7u3PJLcUMYOFnOkEk30e0.ttf

66 ms

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7Aulp_0qiz-aVz7u3PJLcUMYOFkQl0k30e0.ttf

127 ms

ionicons.woff

ionicons.woff

129 ms

z7NFdQDnbTkabZAIOl9il_O6KJj73e7Ff1GhDuXMQg.ttf

z7NFdQDnbTkabZAIOl9il_O6KJj73e7Ff1GhDuXMQg.ttf

128 ms

collect

collect

36 ms

ionicons.woff

ionicons.woff

35 ms

ads

ads

90 ms

Accessibility Review

soccerref.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

soccerref.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

soccerref.org 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

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 Soccerref.org 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 Soccerref.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

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