Report Summary

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cavaliers.net

The official site of the NBA | NBA.com

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

544 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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The official site of the National Basketball Association. Your home for scores, schedules, stats, news, NBA League Pass, NBA TV, video highlights, fantasy, rankings and more for NBA players and teams.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cavaliers.net page load time and found that the first response time was 544 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

cavaliers.net

544 ms

pkgThemeDefault-min.css

23 ms

pkg-min.css

30 ms

pkgThemeDefault-min.js

65 ms

pkgCountdown-min.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 224 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Cavaliers.net, 19% (43 requests) were made to I.cdn.turner.com and 13% (30 requests) were made to Z.cdn.turner.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Cdn-akamai.mookie1.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (47%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Cavaliers.net main page is 5.9 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. Javascripts take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 182.2 kB

  • Original 216.2 kB
  • After minification 212.3 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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 182.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 70.0 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Cavaliers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 905.2 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 2.2 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 358.0 kB

  • Original 433.6 kB
  • After minification 422.2 kB
  • After compression 75.6 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. Cavaliers.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 358.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (47%)

Requests Now

215

After Optimization

113

The browser has sent 215 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cavaliers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 66 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Cavaliers.net 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 Cavaliers.net 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 Cavaliers. 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: