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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

picks.cbssports.com

Fantasy News, Player Stats, Rumors and Rankings - CBSSports.com

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

750 ms

Page Rendered

329 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Picks.cbssports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 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

picks.cbssports.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.297

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

27 ms

main.desktop.css

48 ms

icon-moon.css

42 ms

pre-esi-reset.css

38 ms

layout.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Picks.cbssports.com, 38% (48 requests) were made to Sportsfly.cbsistatic.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Cbssports.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) relates to the external source At.cbsi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 805.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Picks.cbssports.com main page is 3.0 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 796.5 kB

  • Original 879.6 kB
  • After minification 786.8 kB
  • After compression 83.1 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 92.7 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 796.5 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Picks CBSSports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 579.5 kB
  • After minification 579.5 kB
  • After compression 576.5 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 554 B

  • Original 116.5 kB
  • After minification 116.5 kB
  • After compression 116.0 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. Picks.cbssports.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (36%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

79

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Picks CBSSports. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

27 ms

main.desktop.css

main.desktop.css

48 ms

icon-moon.css

icon-moon.css

42 ms

pre-esi-reset.css

pre-esi-reset.css

38 ms

layout.css

layout.css

14 ms

page.css

page.css

23 ms

esi-nav-overrides.css

esi-nav-overrides.css

42 ms

jquery-3.0.0.min.js

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35 ms

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277 ms

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291 ms

site-header.desktop.css

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41 ms

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44 ms

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27 ms

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30 ms

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35 ms

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35 ms

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scout-logo.svg

scout-logo.svg

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scout-fantasy.svg

scout-fantasy.svg

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shamanNotifier.js

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bidbarrel-cbssports.min.js

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Accessibility Review

picks.cbssports.com accessibility score

61

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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>).

High

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

picks.cbssports.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

picks.cbssports.com SEO score

78

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 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 Picks.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 Picks.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

picks.cbssports.com

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