Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

espncricinfo.com

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Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

689 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Espncricinfo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

espncricinfo.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,360 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.espncricinfo.com

44 ms

b3d3d59410a24b9e301e.css

70 ms

polyfills-a40ef1678bae11e696dba45124eadd70.js

374 ms

CiLanguageEnglish.4b9f543a231e3b745bcf.js

397 ms

37.081ecad18ac2ff84e5a8.js

397 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 Espncricinfo.com, 94% (30 requests) were made to Wassets.hscicdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Img1.hscicdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (505 ms) relates to the external source Wassets.hscicdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (67%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

851.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Espncricinfo.com main page is 2.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 664.1 kB

  • Original 769.5 kB
  • After minification 768.2 kB
  • After compression 105.4 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 664.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 48.0 kB
  • After minification 47.0 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. ESPNcricinfo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 495.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 203.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (74%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESPNcricinfo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

espncricinfo.com accessibility score

84

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

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.

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

espncricinfo.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

espncricinfo.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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