Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

cbcsports.ca

CBC Sports - Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, sports news, opinion, video and streaming

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

114 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

8.1 sec

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About Website

Visit cbcsports.ca now to see the best up-to-date CBC Sports content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cbcsports.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cbcsports.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 114 ms and then it took 10.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cbcsports.ca performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cbcsports.ca

114 ms

136 ms

sports

217 ms

182851-247776411096411.js

144 ms

moatheader.js

471 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cbcsports.ca, 45% (47 requests) were made to Cbc.ca and 36% (38 requests) were made to I.cbc.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source I.cbc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 539.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Cbcsports.ca main page is 1.7 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 852.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 194.5 kB

  • Original 245.5 kB
  • After minification 244.2 kB
  • After compression 51.0 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 194.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 234 B

  • Original 852.3 kB
  • After minification 852.1 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. CBC Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 302.1 kB

  • Original 502.2 kB
  • After minification 502.2 kB
  • After compression 200.1 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 302.1 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 42.5 kB

  • Original 115.0 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 72.5 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. Cbcsports.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.5 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (46%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CBC 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 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cbcsports.ca accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

cbcsports.ca 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cbcsports.ca SEO score

90

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