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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

theballparkguide.com

MLB Ballpark Guides / Photos / Reviews - The Ballpark Guide

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

186 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

390 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Ballpark Guide content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about theballparkguide.com

Welcome to TheBallparkGuide.com, expertly curated by Malcolm MacMillan. Uncovering the BEST of the Major & Minor League baseball stadiums across North America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theballparkguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 186 ms and then it took 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

theballparkguide.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theballparkguide.com

186 ms

www.theballparkguide.com

448 ms

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177 ms

css

38 ms

malcolm-bpg.webp

386 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Theballparkguide.com, 23% (12 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 17% (9 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (767 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 730.1 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

735.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theballparkguide.com main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 220.2 kB

  • Original 256.2 kB
  • After minification 249.9 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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 220.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 182.4 kB
  • After minification 176.3 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. The Ballpark Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 503.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 522.9 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 503.8 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (59%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Ballpark Guide. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theballparkguide.com

theballparkguide.com

186 ms

www.theballparkguide.com

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448 ms

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177 ms

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38 ms

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386 ms

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17 ms

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34 ms

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show_ads_impl.js

76 ms

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47 ms

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81 ms

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442 ms

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62 ms

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28 ms

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88 ms

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8 ms

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Accessibility Review

theballparkguide.com accessibility score

90

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

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

theballparkguide.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theballparkguide.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Theballparkguide.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 Theballparkguide.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

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