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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

espn3.com

Watch ESPN - Stream Live Sports & ESPN Originals

Page Load Speed

58.7 sec in total

First Response

315 ms

Resources Loaded

35 sec

Page Rendered

23.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing ESPN 3 content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about espn3.com

With Watch ESPN you can stream live sports and ESPN originals, watch the latest game replays and highlights, and access featured ESPN programming online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Espn3.com page load time and found that the first response time was 315 ms and then it took 58.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

espn3.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,860 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

espn3.com

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i18n

104 ms

base64-benton-woff.css

702 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Espn3.com, 83% (84 requests) were made to A.espncdn.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) relates to the external source A.espncdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.8 MB (67%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Espn3.com main page is 7.1 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 394.0 kB

  • Original 464.6 kB
  • After minification 459.9 kB
  • After compression 70.6 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 394.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 557.6 kB
  • After minification 539.2 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. ESPN 3 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 3.0 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 638.8 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. Espn3.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (22%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

73

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESPN 3. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

espn3.com accessibility score

66

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

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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 toggle fields do not have accessible names

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Best Practices

espn3.com best practices score

69

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

espn3.com SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Espn3.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Espn3.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

espn3.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of ESPN 3. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: