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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thecricketer.com

The Cricketer | Award-winning News and Features

Page Load Speed

24.4 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

23 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecricketer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 24.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

thecricketer.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,150 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecricketer.com

316 ms

Home.aspx

442 ms

viewport.js

88 ms

buttons.js

29 ms

LIVE_WL_Site.css

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 297 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Thecricketer.com, 7% (20 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net and 4% (12 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source D5p.de17a.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (31%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecricketer.com main page is 4.3 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 100.1 kB

  • Original 135.4 kB
  • After minification 130.9 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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 100.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 109.6 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. The Cricketer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 987.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 421.9 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 987.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 151.5 kB

  • Original 182.4 kB
  • After minification 170.5 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. Thecricketer.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 151.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 186 (68%)

Requests Now

272

After Optimization

86

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 272 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Cricketer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thecricketer.com accessibility score

91

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

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

thecricketer.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecricketer.com SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thecricketer.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thecricketer.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

thecricketer.com

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