Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

deadspin.com

Deadspin | Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

321 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

8.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Deadspin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 321 ms and then it took 9.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

deadspin.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value27,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

deadspin.com

321 ms

AdModule.42def492fdcc27df2c05.en-US.js

342 ms

gpt.js

340 ms

amzn_ads.js

518 ms

elizabethserif-light-webfont.woff

459 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Deadspin.com, 53% (8 requests) were made to F.kinja-static.com and 27% (4 requests) were made to X.kinja-static.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (518 ms) relates to the external source C.amazon-adsystem.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (77%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

310.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Deadspin.com main page is 1.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 809.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 293.4 kB

  • Original 352.9 kB
  • After minification 352.6 kB
  • After compression 59.5 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 293.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 590.5 kB

  • Original 809.7 kB
  • After minification 809.7 kB
  • After compression 219.2 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 590.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 180.6 kB

  • Original 212.9 kB
  • After minification 211.9 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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. Deadspin.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 180.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (67%)

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Deadspin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

deadspin.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

deadspin.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

deadspin.com SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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