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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

herosports.com

HERO Sports - FBS, FCS Football Coverage

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

677 ms

About Website

Visit herosports.com now to see the best up-to-date HERO Sports content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about herosports.com

HERO Sports is the go-to website for college football analysis and predictions with an emphasis on the FCS and G5.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herosports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herosports.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

herosports.com

1292 ms

layout.css

231 ms

search.css

176 ms

jquery.dataTables.css

185 ms

jquery.tweet.css

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 372 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Herosports.com, 74% (275 requests) were made to Cdn.herosports.com and 3% (13 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Herosports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 MB (14%)

Content Size

25.4 MB

After Optimization

21.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Herosports.com main page is 25.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 24.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 592.8 kB

  • Original 641.0 kB
  • After minification 517.1 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 123.9 kB, which is 19% 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 592.8 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.3 MB

  • Original 24.0 MB
  • After minification 21.7 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. HERO Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 169.2 kB

  • Original 280.5 kB
  • After minification 280.5 kB
  • After compression 111.3 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 169.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 421.7 kB

  • Original 506.0 kB
  • After minification 467.7 kB
  • After compression 84.2 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. Herosports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 421.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (21%)

Requests Now

358

After Optimization

283

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 358 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HERO 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

herosports.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

herosports.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

SEO Factors

herosports.com SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Herosports.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 Herosports.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 HERO 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: