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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

sports-reference.com

Sports Reference | Sports Stats, fast, easy, and up-to-date | Sports-Reference.com

Page Load Speed

565 ms in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

415 ms

Page Rendered

117 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sports-reference.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 532 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sports-reference.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sports-reference.com

33 ms

www.sports-reference.com

67 ms

gtm.js

69 ms

20503178.js

40 ms

vedd3670a3b1c4e178fdfb0cc912d969e1713874337387

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sports-reference.com, 61% (17 requests) were made to Cdn.ssref.net and 11% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (130 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.ssref.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 79.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

385.6 kB

After Optimization

305.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sports-reference.com main page is 385.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 206.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 97.8 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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 72.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 206.6 kB
  • After minification 206.6 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 Reference images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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 7.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 31.2 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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. Sports-reference.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (31%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sports Reference. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sports-reference.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

sports-reference.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-reference.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sports-reference.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-reference.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 Sports Reference. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: