Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

espn360.com

Watch ESPN - Stream Live Sports & ESPN Originals

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

571 ms

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About Website

Welcome to espn360.com homepage info - get ready to check ESPN 360 best content right away, or after learning these important things about espn360.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Espn360.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

espn360.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.439

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

espn360.com

18 ms

59 ms

1153 ms

Bootstrap.js

321 ms

3766-531ce76f.css

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Espn360.com, 59% (17 requests) were made to Cdn1.espn.net and 10% (3 requests) were made to S.secure.espncdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Espn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Espn360.com main page is 2.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 156.2 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 1.6 MB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 232.6 kB
  • After minification 219.1 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. ESPN 360 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 691.2 kB
  • After minification 691.2 kB
  • After compression 645.2 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 128 B

  • Original 48.5 kB
  • After minification 48.5 kB
  • After compression 48.4 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. Espn360.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (65%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESPN 360. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

espn360.com accessibility score

58

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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>).

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

espn360.com 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

espn360.com SEO score

82

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 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 Espn360.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 Espn360.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 ESPN 360. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: