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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

skysports.com

Sky Sports - Sports News, Transfers, Scores | Watch Live Sport

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

967 ms

Page Rendered

132 ms

About Website

Visit skysports.com now to see the best up-to-date Sky Sports content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about skysports.com

Watch the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores.

Visit skysports.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Skysports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skysports.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skysports.com

162 ms

www.skysports.com

58 ms

site-main-02e08c85af5c2bbf002afee56a0570c8.css

84 ms

launch-ENd3e4df0dfde7473d823092cac7cd0611.min.js

26 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Skysports.com, 69% (74 requests) were made to E0.365dm.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (340 ms) relates to the external source E0.365dm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 740.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skysports.com main page is 5.6 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 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 354.5 kB

  • Original 391.4 kB
  • After minification 285.0 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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 106.4 kB, which is 27% 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 354.5 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 180.7 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Sky Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 204.6 kB

  • Original 491.2 kB
  • After minification 491.0 kB
  • After compression 286.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 204.6 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 134 B

  • Original 84.0 kB
  • After minification 84.0 kB
  • After compression 83.9 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. Skysports.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (18%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

87

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sky Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

skysports.com accessibility score

97

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

skysports.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

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