Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

espnevents.com

Home - ESPN Events

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

549 ms

espnevents.com screenshot

About Website

Visit espnevents.com now to see the best up-to-date ESPN Events content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about espnevents.com

The roster includes four early-season neutral site college football games, 14 college bowl games, 10 college basketball events, two college award shows, and one college softball event, which account f...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Espnevents.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

espnevents.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.058

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

espnevents.com

1829 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

116 ms

css

35 ms

main.css

38 ms

css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Espnevents.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Espnevents.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Espnevents.com main page is 3.6 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. 80% 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 81.2 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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 64.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 189.9 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. ESPN Events images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 13.6 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 720 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 575 B

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. Espnevents.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 720 B or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (36%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESPN Events. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

espnevents.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

espnevents.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

SEO Factors

espnevents.com SEO score

93

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

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

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