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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

longhornnetwork.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Longhornnetwork.com page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 1.3 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

longhornnetwork.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

longhornnetwork.com

160 ms

82 ms

fonts.css

125 ms

c

114 ms

util

3 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Longhornnetwork.com, 73% (24 requests) were made to A.espncdn.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Espn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (233 ms) relates to the external source Broadband.espn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

403.7 kB

After Optimization

286.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Longhornnetwork.com main page is 403.7 kB. 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. Images take 237.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 19.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 237.3 kB
  • After minification 204.7 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. Obviously, Longhorn Network needs image optimization as it can save up to 32.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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 47.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. Longhornnetwork.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.9 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (37%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Longhorn Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

longhornnetwork.com

longhornnetwork.com

160 ms

82 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

125 ms

c

c

114 ms

util

util

3 ms

espn-critical.js

espn-critical.js

129 ms

application.longhornnetwork.js

application.longhornnetwork.js

124 ms

auth

auth

80 ms

userData

userData

233 ms

bg-footer.jpg

bg-footer.jpg

49 ms

bg-site.jpg

bg-site.jpg

47 ms

i

i

44 ms

icon-watch-live-square3.png

icon-watch-live-square3.png

45 ms

bg-flag-live.gif

bg-flag-live.gif

129 ms

bg-week-arrows.gif

bg-week-arrows.gif

128 ms

bg-calendar-single.png

bg-calendar-single.png

172 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

170 ms

button_logout.png

button_logout.png

45 ms

AAIrsQNGditEWbAUKwA=

AAIrsQNGditEWbAUKwA=

5 ms

logo-longhorn.png

logo-longhorn.png

72 ms

arrow_right.png

arrow_right.png

74 ms

bg-nav.png

bg-nav.png

73 ms

espn_everywhere_nav_bg.png

espn_everywhere_nav_bg.png

74 ms

bg-watch-now.png

bg-watch-now.png

74 ms

logo-longhorn-footer.gif

logo-longhorn-footer.gif

74 ms

c

c

53 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

26 ms

uOverlay_sprite.png

uOverlay_sprite.png

21 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

22 ms

btn_close.png

btn_close.png

22 ms

get_adobe_flash_player.png

get_adobe_flash_player.png

23 ms

GetDE

GetDE

220 ms

m

m

33 ms

Accessibility Review

longhornnetwork.com accessibility score

70

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

longhornnetwork.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

longhornnetwork.com SEO score

82

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

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Longhornnetwork.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Longhornnetwork.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

longhornnetwork.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Longhorn Network. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: