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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

usatodaysportsplus.com

USA TODAY Sports+ Is now available to more subscribers

Page Load Speed

336 ms in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

236 ms

Page Rendered

64 ms

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About Website

Visit usatodaysportsplus.com now to see the best up-to-date USA TODAY Sports Plus content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about usatodaysportsplus.com

All USA TODAY Sports+ content is now available at USATODAY.com. Want a Sports-only experience? You can still download the Sports+ app.

Visit usatodaysportsplus.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Usatodaysportsplus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 300 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Usatodaysportsplus.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

usatodaysportsplus.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

36 ms

m-oc.svg

17 ms

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37 ms

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39 ms

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38 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Usatodaysportsplus.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (44 ms) relates to the external source Usatoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

26.8 kB

After Optimization

23.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Usatodaysportsplus.com main page is 26.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 22.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 3.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 263 B

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 21.9 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. USA TODAY Sports Plus images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of USA TODAY Sports Plus. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

36 ms

m-oc.svg

m-oc.svg

17 ms

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37 ms

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23fdae24-27c0-4a02-ad62-d5fabcc699a7-firefox-150.png

39 ms

19944d43-c91e-4862-8aa5-9c86250bd75e-opera-150.png

19944d43-c91e-4862-8aa5-9c86250bd75e-opera-150.png

38 ms

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36 ms

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44 ms

Accessibility Review

usatodaysportsplus.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

usatodaysportsplus.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

usatodaysportsplus.com SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Usatodaysportsplus.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 Usatodaysportsplus.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

usatodaysportsplus.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of USA TODAY Sports Plus. 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: