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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

shawsports.net

Shaw Sports | Opinion pieces, interviews and podcasts...a better way to discuss sports & entertainment

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

367 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shawsports.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shawsports.net performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value26,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.193

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shawsports.net

1842 ms

shareaholic.js

137 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

77 ms

style.min.css

149 ms

adsns.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Shawsports.net, 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Shawsports.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.4 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shawsports.net main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 50.9 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 40.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 114.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Shaw Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 73.8 kB
  • After minification 58.0 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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 51.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 261.6 kB

  • Original 301.6 kB
  • After minification 240.6 kB
  • After compression 40.0 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. Shawsports.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (59%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shaw 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 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shawsports.net

shawsports.net

1842 ms

shareaholic.js

shareaholic.js

137 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

77 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

149 ms

adsns.css

adsns.css

133 ms

gm-delete-comments-public.css

gm-delete-comments-public.css

134 ms

css

css

54 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

201 ms

style.css

style.css

329 ms

extra.css

extra.css

178 ms

counterize.css.php

counterize.css.php

241 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

289 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

201 ms

gm-delete-comments-public.js

gm-delete-comments-public.js

218 ms

modernizr.custom.min.js

modernizr.custom.min.js

250 ms

counterize.js.php

counterize.js.php

302 ms

subscribe-widget.css

subscribe-widget.css

267 ms

set-view-count.js

set-view-count.js

283 ms

custom.js

custom.js

270 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

291 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

91 ms

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Shaw-Sports-Logo-640x320-220x1101.jpg

89 ms

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87 ms

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441 ms

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392 ms

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240 ms

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239 ms

rss.png

rss.png

162 ms

facebooks.png

facebooks.png

164 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

166 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

167 ms

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152 ms

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154 ms

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155 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

207 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

208 ms

modern_icon_sprite.svg

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152 ms

arrow.svg

arrow.svg

155 ms

debouncedresize.js

debouncedresize.js

129 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

128 ms

navgoco.js

navgoco.js

129 ms

uisearch.js

uisearch.js

127 ms

classie.js

classie.js

130 ms

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75 ms

debouncedresize.js

debouncedresize.js

69 ms

Accessibility Review

shawsports.net accessibility score

78

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

shawsports.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

shawsports.net SEO score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Shawsports.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 Shawsports.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

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