Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% 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

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

sochi2014.com

IOC - International Olympic Committee | Olympics.com

Page Load Speed

77.8 sec in total

First Response

702 ms

Resources Loaded

50.1 sec

Page Rendered

27 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sochi2014.com page load time and found that the first response time was 702 ms and then it took 77 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 37 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

sochi2014.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sochi2014.com

702 ms

sochi-2014-winter-olympics

657 ms

sochi-2014

327 ms

modules.css

1428 ms

all.css

2686 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sochi2014.com, 41% (26 requests) were made to Stillres.olympic.org and 38% (24 requests) were made to Stillmed.olympic.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (24.3 sec) relates to the external source Stillmed.olympic.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (35%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Sochi2014.com main page is 5.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 121.6 kB

  • Original 143.0 kB
  • After minification 122.3 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.7 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 121.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 177.0 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Sochi 2014 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 365.4 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 1.0 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 442.0 kB

  • Original 511.4 kB
  • After minification 379.4 kB
  • After compression 69.5 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. Sochi2014.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 442.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (55%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sochi 2014. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sochi2014.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

sochi2014.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sochi2014.com SEO score

88

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

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 Sochi2014.com 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 Sochi2014.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 Sochi 2014. 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: