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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

basports.com

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Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Basports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

basports.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

basports.com

54 ms

basports.com

113 ms

style.css

54 ms

menu.css

70 ms

Functions.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Basports.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Partners.commission.bz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 231.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Basports.com main page is 2.4 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. 85% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 82.2 kB
  • After minification 73.8 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 71.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 151.7 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Ba Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 207.8 kB
  • After minification 207.7 kB
  • After compression 201.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 63.6 kB
  • After minification 62.9 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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. Basports.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (27%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ba 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

basports.com accessibility score

67

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

basports.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

basports.com SEO score

67

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

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 Basports.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 Basports.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 description is not detected on the main page of Ba Sports. 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: