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softball.org

Homepage - USA Softball

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

574 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Softball.org page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

softball.org

106 ms

USA-Softball.aspx

235 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

bootstrap.min.css

66 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Softball.org, 45% (60 requests) were made to Teamusa.org and 25% (33 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Snapwidget.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (44%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Softball.org main page is 4.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 99.9 kB

  • Original 124.0 kB
  • After minification 96.3 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.7 kB, which is 22% 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 99.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Softball images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 512.5 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 1.4 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 450.3 kB

  • Original 542.5 kB
  • After minification 523.2 kB
  • After compression 92.1 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. Softball.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 450.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (45%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

69

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Softball. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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