Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

thebluealliance.com

The Blue Alliance

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

99 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebluealliance.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebluealliance.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebluealliance.com

27 ms

www.thebluealliance.com

72 ms

tba_combined_style.main.min.css

17 ms

font-awesome.min.css

53 ms

featherlight.min.css

256 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Thebluealliance.com, 36% (16 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (589 ms) relates to the external source Cdnjs.cloudflare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

319.8 kB

After Optimization

277.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Thebluealliance.com main page is 319.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 257.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 24.3 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 18.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Obviously, The Blue Alliance needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 257.0 kB
  • After minification 257.0 kB
  • After compression 241.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Thebluealliance.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (69%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Blue Alliance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thebluealliance.com accessibility score

63

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

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

thebluealliance.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

thebluealliance.com SEO score

92

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