Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

auth.cbssports.com

CBS Sports - News, Live Scores, Schedules, Fantasy Games, Video and more. - CBSSports.com

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

auth.cbssports.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Auth CBS Sports content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about auth.cbssports.com

CBS Sports features live scoring, news, stats, and player info for NFL football, MLB baseball, NBA basketball, NHL hockey, college basketball and football.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Auth.cbssports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 2.7 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

auth.cbssports.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value95.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

auth.cbssports.com

1507 ms

main.desktop.css

63 ms

icon-moon.css

104 ms

pre-esi-reset.css

105 ms

layout.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Auth.cbssports.com, 53% (60 requests) were made to Sportsfly.cbsistatic.com and 23% (26 requests) were made to Sports.cbsimg.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Auth.cbssports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 727.7 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Auth.cbssports.com main page is 2.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 828.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 718.0 kB

  • Original 790.4 kB
  • After minification 718.0 kB
  • After compression 72.4 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 718.0 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 828.6 kB
  • After minification 826.4 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. Auth CBS Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 599.5 kB
  • After minification 599.5 kB
  • After compression 592.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 585 B

  • Original 120.3 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 119.7 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. Auth.cbssports.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (49%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Auth CBS 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 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

auth.cbssports.com accessibility score

73

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

auth.cbssports.com SEO score

70

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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