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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

the18.com

The18 | Where Soccer Lives

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed The18.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

the18.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value48.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original The18.com, 11% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain The18.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 639.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

7.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of The18.com main page is 8.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 168.6 kB

  • Original 214.0 kB
  • After minification 196.0 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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. 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 168.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 343.6 kB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. The18 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 126.5 kB

  • Original 995.1 kB
  • After minification 989.9 kB
  • After compression 868.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 126.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 450 B

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 95.7 kB
  • After compression 95.2 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. The18.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (47%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The18. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

the18.com accessibility score

85

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

the18.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

the18.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 The18.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 The18.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

the18.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The18. 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: