Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

skysportsonline.com

Sky Sports - Sports News, Transfers, Scores | Watch Live Sport

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

skysportsonline.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sky Sports Online content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about skysportsonline.com

Watch the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skysportsonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skysportsonline.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skysportsonline.com

195 ms

www.skysports.com

52 ms

site-main-c663050083b80056af1c44db185a4252.css

24 ms

launch-ENd3e4df0dfde7473d823092cac7cd0611.min.js

21 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Skysportsonline.com, 70% (75 requests) were made to E0.365dm.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Znecb9ajgqf1ugx9q-skydesign.siteintercept.qualtrics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.6 MB (55%)

Content Size

12.0 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Skysportsonline.com main page is 12.0 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 6.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 4.5 MB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.5 MB
  • After compression 59.2 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 4.5 MB or 99% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 6.3 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Obviously, Sky Sports Online needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 224.0 kB

  • Original 498.7 kB
  • After minification 498.4 kB
  • After compression 274.7 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 224.0 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 445.6 kB

  • Original 534.1 kB
  • After minification 533.3 kB
  • After compression 88.5 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. Skysportsonline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 445.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (16%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

88

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sky Sports Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

skysportsonline.com accessibility score

97

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

skysportsonline.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

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