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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

mlb.com

MLB.com | The Official Site of Major League Baseball

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

750 ms

mlb.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to mlb.com homepage info - get ready to check MLB best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about mlb.com

Coverage includes audio and video clips, interviews, statistics, schedules and exclusive stories.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mlb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mlb.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value51,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value100.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mlb.com

178 ms

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Our browser made a total of 204 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Mlb.com, 25% (51 requests) were made to Mlbstatic.com and 23% (47 requests) were made to Img.mlbstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Z.moatads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 666.8 kB (68%)

Content Size

984.8 kB

After Optimization

318.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Mlb.com main page is 984.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 822.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 663.3 kB

  • Original 822.1 kB
  • After minification 822.0 kB
  • After compression 158.7 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 663.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 68 B
  • After minification 67 B

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. MLB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 162.7 kB
  • After minification 162.7 kB
  • After compression 159.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (90%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MLB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

mlb.com accessibility score

96

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

SEO Factors

mlb.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mlb.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 Mlb.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

mlb.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of MLB. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: