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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

sports.aol.com

Sports News & latest headlines from every league - AOL.com

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

791 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sports.aol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sports.aol.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sports.aol.com

13 ms

264 ms

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Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sports.aol.com, 73% (84 requests) were made to S.aolcdn.com and 23% (26 requests) were made to S.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source S.yimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 507.9 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

503.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Sports.aol.com main page is 1.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 611.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 501.3 kB

  • Original 611.3 kB
  • After minification 611.1 kB
  • After compression 110.1 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 501.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 214.1 kB
  • After minification 207.7 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. Sports AOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 230 B

  • Original 185.8 kB
  • After minification 185.7 kB
  • After compression 185.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (46%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

56

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sports AOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

sports.aol.com accessibility score

86

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

High

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sports.aol.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

sports.aol.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 Sports.aol.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 Sports.aol.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

sports.aol.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Sports AOL. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: