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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

espncaribbean.com

ESPN United Kingdom - Serving Sports Fans. Anytime. Anywhere.

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

831 ms

Page Rendered

264 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Espncaribbean.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 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

espncaribbean.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

espncaribbean.com

36 ms

15 ms

156 ms

Bootstrap.js

30 ms

i18n

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Espncaribbean.com, 59% (19 requests) were made to A.espncdn.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Espn.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (335 ms) relates to the external source A.espncdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.8 MB (74%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Espncaribbean.com main page is 5.2 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. Javascripts take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 91.9 kB

  • Original 120.9 kB
  • After minification 117.3 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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 91.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 330.8 kB
  • After minification 323.3 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 Caribbean images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 769.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.2 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 200.8 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. Espncaribbean.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESPN Caribbean. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

espncaribbean.com

espncaribbean.com

36 ms

15 ms

156 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

30 ms

i18n

i18n

27 ms

shell-desktop.css

shell-desktop.css

59 ms

page.css

page.css

74 ms

one-feed-refresh.css

one-feed-refresh.css

134 ms

espn-head.js

espn-head.js

100 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

100 ms

espn-critical.js

espn-critical.js

204 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

205 ms

18138.js

18138.js

132 ms

default-team-logo-500.png

default-team-logo-500.png

119 ms

logo-espn-82x20.png

logo-espn-82x20.png

112 ms

icon-search.png

icon-search.png

186 ms

i

i

335 ms

controls__play.svg

controls__play.svg

124 ms

espn-404@2x.png

espn-404@2x.png

236 ms

espn-defer.js

espn-defer.js

76 ms

espn-defer-low.js

espn-defer-low.js

137 ms

espn-analytics.js

espn-analytics.js

82 ms

ESPNIcons.woff

ESPNIcons.woff

75 ms

ESPNIcons.woff

ESPNIcons.woff

132 ms

default-team-logo-500.png

default-team-logo-500.png

232 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

45 ms

i

i

5 ms

i

i

100 ms

21783347309

21783347309

49 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

86 ms

i

i

33 ms

i

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44 ms

Accessibility Review

espncaribbean.com accessibility score

65

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

espncaribbean.com best practices score

75

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

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

espncaribbean.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Espncaribbean.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 Espncaribbean.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

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