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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

cbsssports.com

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

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

922 ms

Page Rendered

342 ms

cbsssports.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing CBS S Sports content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cbsssports.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 Cbsssports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 1.3 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

cbsssports.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value26,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value92.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cbsssports.com

165 ms

www.cbssports.com

39 ms

main.desktop.css

59 ms

icon-moon.css

106 ms

pre-esi-reset.css

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cbsssports.com, 48% (48 requests) were made to Sportsfly.cbsistatic.com and 23% (23 requests) were made to Sports.cbsimg.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (505 ms) relates to the external source Sportshub.cbsistatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 757.2 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cbsssports.com main page is 2.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 723.5 kB

  • Original 796.0 kB
  • After minification 724.5 kB
  • After compression 72.5 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 723.5 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. CBS S Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 567.2 kB
  • After minification 567.2 kB
  • After compression 566.0 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

-21%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 152.0 kB
  • After minification 151.7 kB
  • After compression 119.5 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. Cbsssports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.5 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (44%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CBS S 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 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cbsssports.com

cbsssports.com

165 ms

www.cbssports.com

www.cbssports.com

39 ms

main.desktop.css

main.desktop.css

59 ms

icon-moon.css

icon-moon.css

106 ms

pre-esi-reset.css

pre-esi-reset.css

109 ms

layout.css

layout.css

22 ms

page.css

page.css

30 ms

esi-nav-overrides.css

esi-nav-overrides.css

109 ms

jquery-3.0.0.min.js

jquery-3.0.0.min.js

44 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

107 ms

optanon-v1.1.0.js

optanon-v1.1.0.js

45 ms

require-2.3.5.js

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130 ms

guid-1.0.js

guid-1.0.js

128 ms

MIN-80200.js

MIN-80200.js

50 ms

site-header.desktop.css

site-header.desktop.css

128 ms

site-footer.css

site-footer.css

126 ms

nav-interactions.js

nav-interactions.js

27 ms

saag.desktop.css

saag.desktop.css

115 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

114 ms

footer.lite.js

footer.lite.js

185 ms

main.desktop.js

main.desktop.js

322 ms

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a60e161f-a66d-414e-adaa-217c83fc6ae0.json

227 ms

shamanNotifier.js

shamanNotifier.js

236 ms

utag.js

utag.js

333 ms

cwr.js

cwr.js

328 ms

image

image

226 ms

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414 ms

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413 ms

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505 ms

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466 ms

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marvin-harrison-jr-cardinals-usatsi.jpg

478 ms

chiefs.jpg

chiefs.jpg

466 ms

image

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167 ms

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165 ms

fanatics.svg

fanatics.svg

257 ms

logo-247sports.svg

logo-247sports.svg

165 ms

logo-sportsline.svg

logo-sportsline.svg

166 ms

logo-maxpreps.svg

logo-maxpreps.svg

167 ms

taboola-choices.png

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168 ms

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logo-cbs-sports-digital-blue.svg

162 ms

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logo-cbs-sports-golazo-network-blue.svg

254 ms

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logo-paramount-plus-blue.svg

255 ms

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251 ms

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commissioner-button2.svg

253 ms

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footer_golfweb.svg

251 ms

logo-sportsline-text.svg

logo-sportsline-text.svg

266 ms

mvp-footer-button.svg

mvp-footer-button.svg

265 ms

scout-logo.svg

scout-logo.svg

264 ms

scout-fantasy.svg

scout-fantasy.svg

266 ms

images.js

images.js

125 ms

icon-moon.woff

icon-moon.woff

140 ms

location

location

220 ms

bidbarrel-cbssports.min.js

bidbarrel-cbssports.min.js

372 ms

saag-favorites.js

saag-favorites.js

67 ms

gambling-partner-saag.js

gambling-partner-saag.js

68 ms

saag-lazy-load.js

saag-lazy-load.js

67 ms

saag-menu.js

saag-menu.js

66 ms

carousel.desktop.js

carousel.desktop.js

66 ms

format-datetime.js

format-datetime.js

147 ms

embed-carousel.js

embed-carousel.js

145 ms

newsletter-signup.js

newsletter-signup.js

145 ms

checkbox-expanded.js

checkbox-expanded.js

145 ms

california-notice.js

california-notice.js

145 ms

in-viewport.js

in-viewport.js

97 ms

preferences

preferences

207 ms

commonFunctions.js

commonFunctions.js

51 ms

gambling.js

gambling.js

94 ms

carousel-1.0.js

carousel-1.0.js

61 ms

table-shadows.js

table-shadows.js

102 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

109 ms

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328.svg

88 ms

guid.js

guid.js

67 ms

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66 ms

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88 ms

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69 ms

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102 ms

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103 ms

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102 ms

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107 ms

dateformat-1.0.3.js

dateformat-1.0.3.js

50 ms

getValueFromArray.js

getValueFromArray.js

49 ms

guid-1.0.js

guid-1.0.js

11 ms

Accessibility Review

cbsssports.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

cbsssports.com SEO score

71

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

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

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 Cbsssports.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 Cbsssports.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

cbsssports.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of CBS S Sports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: