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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

basports.com

Bob Akmens Sports - America's #1-Documented Top Sports Handicapper - Football Picks - and More!

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

485 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

5.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Basports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 485 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

basports.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

basports.com

485 ms

Functions.js

14 ms

CJS.js

10 ms

site.css

13 ms

menu.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (113 requests) were addressed to the original Basports.com, 3% (4 requests) were made to Ff.connextra.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Js.bettingpartners.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (521 ms) relates to the external source Ff.connextra.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (12%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Basports.com main page is 9.3 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 8.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 355.0 kB

  • Original 388.6 kB
  • After minification 325.2 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 63.4 kB, which is 16% 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 355.0 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 707.9 kB

  • Original 8.9 MB
  • After minification 8.1 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

-59%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 35.4 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 50.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (17%)

Requests Now

143

After Optimization

119

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 143 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

basports.com

basports.com

485 ms

Functions.js

Functions.js

14 ms

CJS.js

CJS.js

10 ms

site.css

site.css

13 ms

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menu.css

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football.gif

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baseball.gif

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basketball.gif

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49 ms

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THE-SPORTS-EYE-RANKED-NUMBER-1-NFL-FOOTBALL-BASPORTS-100-PERCENT-5-0(1).JPG

50 ms

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50 ms

THE-SPORTS-MONITOR-RANKED-NUMBER-1-NFL-FOOTBALL-BASPORTS-100-PERCENT-5-0-NFL.JPG

THE-SPORTS-MONITOR-RANKED-NUMBER-1-NFL-FOOTBALL-BASPORTS-100-PERCENT-5-0-NFL.JPG

52 ms

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WALL-STREE-JOURNAL-MARKETWATCH-091815-BASPORTS-100-PERCENT-IN-NFL(1).JPG

59 ms

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65 ms

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58 ms

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56 ms

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75 ms

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57 ms

seal.js

seal.js

51 ms

041715(1).JPG

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55 ms

TSM-NBA-CONTEST-BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-FINAL-PLAYOFFS-1-OF-3.JPG

TSM-NBA-CONTEST-BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-FINAL-PLAYOFFS-1-OF-3.JPG

56 ms

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TSM-NBA-CONTEST-BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-FINAL-PLAYOFFS-2-OF-3.JPG

54 ms

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TSM-NBA-CONTEST-BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-FINAL-PLAYOFFS-3-OF-3.JPG

56 ms

BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-IN-NHL-NET-PROFIT-IN%20NATION-THE-SPORTS-MONITOR-CONTEST-031115-01-OF-02.JPG

BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-IN-NHL-NET-PROFIT-IN%20NATION-THE-SPORTS-MONITOR-CONTEST-031115-01-OF-02.JPG

61 ms

BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-NHL-NET-PROFIT-THE-SPORTS-MONITOR-031015-02-OF-03.JPG

BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-NHL-NET-PROFIT-THE-SPORTS-MONITOR-031015-02-OF-03.JPG

58 ms

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BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-NHL-NET-PROFIT-THE-SPORTS-MONITOR-031015-03-OF-03.JPG

56 ms

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BASPORTS-LOGO.gif

55 ms

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51 ms

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55 ms

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50 ms

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52 ms

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54 ms

BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-HIT-OF-66-MILLION-ON-BING-FOR-WHO-IS-THE-WORLDS-BEST-SPORTS-HANDICAPPER.JPG

BASPORTS-NUMBER-1-HIT-OF-66-MILLION-ON-BING-FOR-WHO-IS-THE-WORLDS-BEST-SPORTS-HANDICAPPER.JPG

36 ms

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38 ms

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48 ms

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51 ms

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50 ms

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47 ms

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48 ms

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Accessibility Review

basports.com accessibility score

63

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

basports.com best practices score

42

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

basports.com SEO score

50

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

High

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

basports.com

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: