Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

selector.skysports.com

Live Horse Racing Results, Racecards, News, Tips | Sky Sports

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

selector.skysports.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to selector.skysports.com homepage info - get ready to check Selector Sky Sports best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about selector.skysports.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Selector.skysports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

selector.skysports.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

selector.skysports.com

178 ms

racing

135 ms

site-main-69ae2363dd2659a1ac8759bcce1a5bbf.css

45 ms

launch-ENd3e4df0dfde7473d823092cac7cd0611.min.js

121 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Selector.skysports.com, 41% (22 requests) were made to E0.365dm.com and 15% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (694 ms) relates to the external source E0.365dm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 835.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Selector.skysports.com main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 144.9 kB

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 135.7 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 36.5 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 144.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Selector Sky Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 227.6 kB

  • Original 514.9 kB
  • After minification 514.6 kB
  • After compression 287.3 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 227.6 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 463.4 kB

  • Original 555.5 kB
  • After minification 554.7 kB
  • After compression 92.1 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. Selector.skysports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 463.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (35%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Selector Sky Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

selector.skysports.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

selector.skysports.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

selector.skysports.com SEO score

100

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

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 Selector.skysports.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 Selector.skysports.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 Selector Sky Sports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: