Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

supersport.com

SuperSport – Sports video, fixtures, results and news

Page Load Speed

58.2 sec in total

First Response

897 ms

Resources Loaded

35.8 sec

Page Rendered

21.5 sec

supersport.com screenshot

About Website

Visit supersport.com now to see the best up-to-date Super Sport content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about supersport.com

SuperSport.com delivers comprehensive coverage of major sporting events, including video highlights, results, fixtures, logs, news, TV schedules and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Supersport.com page load time and found that the first response time was 897 ms and then it took 57.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

supersport.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

supersport.com

897 ms

www.supersport.com

2215 ms

styles-min.css

4934 ms

submenu-min.css

4257 ms

mainmenu-min.css

4273 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Supersport.com, 60% (100 requests) were made to Cdn.dstv.com and 18% (31 requests) were made to Images.supersport.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.3 sec) relates to the external source Images.supersport.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.9 MB (52%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Supersport.com main page is 7.5 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 114.8 kB

  • Original 143.4 kB
  • After minification 126.2 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.2 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 114.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 218.6 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Super Sport images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.8 MB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.6 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 2.8 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 749.4 kB

  • Original 899.3 kB
  • After minification 856.2 kB
  • After compression 150.0 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. Supersport.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 749.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (56%)

Requests Now

163

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 163 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Super Sport. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

supersport.com accessibility score

89

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a valid value for its [lang] attribute.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

supersport.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

supersport.com SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Supersport.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Supersport.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 Super Sport. 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: