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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

pacers.com

Pacers - The official site of the NBA for the latest NBA Scores, Stats & News. | NBA.com

Page Load Speed

16.5 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

15.6 sec

Page Rendered

788 ms

About Website

Visit pacers.com now to see the best up-to-date Pacers content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pacers.com

The official site of the National Basketball Association. Follow the action on NBA scores, schedules, stats, news, Team and Player news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pacers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 16.4 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.

Performance Metrics

pacers.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.257

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pacers.com

44 ms

5456 ms

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19 ms

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20 ms

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26 ms

Our browser made a total of 234 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pacers.com, 34% (80 requests) were made to I.cdn.turner.com and 11% (26 requests) were made to Z.cdn.turner.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) relates to the external source Nba.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (23%)

Content Size

10.4 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pacers.com main page is 10.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 525.7 kB

  • Original 574.6 kB
  • After minification 512.2 kB
  • After compression 48.8 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 62.3 kB, which is 11% 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 525.7 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 365.7 kB

  • Original 7.9 MB
  • After minification 7.5 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. Pacers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 978.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 369.1 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 978.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 541.7 kB

  • Original 635.6 kB
  • After minification 629.3 kB
  • After compression 93.9 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. Pacers.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 541.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (29%)

Requests Now

217

After Optimization

155

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 217 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pacers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pacers.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

pacers.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

pacers.com SEO score

91

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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