Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

football.cbssports.com

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Page Load Speed

709 ms in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

496 ms

Page Rendered

156 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Football.cbssports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 652 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

football.cbssports.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

football.cbssports.com

57 ms

23 ms

main.desktop.css

30 ms

icon-moon.css

67 ms

otSDKStub.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Football.cbssports.com, 65% (32 requests) were made to Sportsfly.cbsistatic.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Sportshub.cbsistatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (220 ms) relates to the external source Sportshub.cbsistatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

962.5 kB

After Optimization

748.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Football.cbssports.com main page is 962.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 609.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 154.6 kB

  • Original 174.7 kB
  • After minification 84.4 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 90.3 kB, which is 52% 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 154.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 62.9 kB
  • After minification 59.7 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. Football CBSSports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 56.1 kB

  • Original 609.3 kB
  • After minification 609.3 kB
  • After compression 553.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 540 B

  • Original 115.5 kB
  • After minification 115.5 kB
  • After compression 115.0 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. Football.cbssports.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (56%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Football CBSSports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

football.cbssports.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

football.cbssports.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

football.cbssports.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 doesn't use 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 Football.cbssports.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 Football.cbssports.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 Football CBSSports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: