Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

usacycling.com

Cycling News and Clubs | Bike Races | USA Cycling | USA Cycling

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usacycling.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

usacycling.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usacycling.com

18 ms

usacycling.com

19 ms

usacycling.org

173 ms

polyfills-legacy-BXBCXG6N.js

52 ms

main-B_A42gFZ.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Usacycling.com, 53% (27 requests) were made to Assets.usacycling.org and 39% (20 requests) were made to Usacycling.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (672 ms) relates to the external source Assets.usacycling.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Usacycling.com main page is 6.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 117.2 kB

  • Original 141.3 kB
  • After minification 120.7 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 20.6 kB, which is 15% 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 117.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 6.2 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. USA Cycling images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 9 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 119.5 kB
  • After minification 119.5 kB
  • After compression 117.0 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. Usacycling.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (11%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of USA Cycling. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

usacycling.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

usacycling.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

usacycling.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 Usacycling.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 Usacycling.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 USA Cycling. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: