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scores.nbcsports.com

NBC Sports - news, scores, stats, rumors, videos, and more

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scores.nbcsports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

scoreboard-central

38 ms

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11 ms

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14 ms

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13 ms

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16 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Scores.nbcsports.com, 21% (26 requests) were made to Nbcsports.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Hosted.stats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (194 ms) relates to the external source Ping.crowdscience.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (60%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

933.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Scores.nbcsports.com main page is 2.3 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. 75% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 246.9 kB

  • Original 288.3 kB
  • After minification 260.1 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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 246.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 308.3 kB
  • After minification 286.3 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. Scores NBC Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 924.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 501.1 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 924.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 190.3 kB

  • Original 295.3 kB
  • After minification 293.3 kB
  • After compression 105.0 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. Scores.nbcsports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (61%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scores NBC 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 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scores.nbcsports.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Scores.nbcsports.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 description is not detected on the main page of Scores NBC 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: