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· 0 checks — Desktop Lighthouse audit -- Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO category breakdown.Detailed Report
Audit breakdown by category with detailed findings.
Performance
Insights
Remove large, duplicate JavaScript modules from bundles to reduce unnecessary bytes consumed by network activity.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
Polyfills and transforms enable older browsers to use new JavaScript features. However, many aren't necessary for modern browsers. Consider modifying your JavaScript build process to not transpile Baseline features, unless you know you must support older browsers. Learn why most sites can deploy ES6+ code without transpiling
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
3rd party code can significantly impact load performance. Reduce and defer loading of 3rd party code to prioritize your page's content.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
A long cache lifetime can speed up repeat visits to your page. Learn more about caching.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
A forced reflow occurs when JavaScript queries geometric properties (such as offsetWidth) after styles have been invalidated by a change to the DOM state. This can result in poor performance. Learn more about forced reflows and possible mitigations.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
Avoid chaining critical requests by reducing the length of chains, reducing the download size of resources, or deferring the download of unnecessary resources to improve page load.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
Your first network request is the most important. Reduce its latency by avoiding redirects, ensuring a fast server response, and enabling text compression.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
Requests are blocking the page's initial render, which may delay LCP. Deferring or inlining can move these network requests out of the critical path.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
These insights are also available in the Chrome DevTools Performance Panel - record a trace to view more detailed information.
Redirects introduce additional delays before the page can be loaded. Learn how to avoid page redirects.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| URL | Time Spent |
|---|---|
| syfy.com/ | 207 ms |
| www.syfy.com/ | 0.0 ms |
Time to Interactive is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive. Learn more about the Time to Interactive metric.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
Diagnostics
Reduce unused JavaScript and defer loading scripts until they are required to decrease bytes consumed by network activity. Learn how to reduce unused JavaScript.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| URL | Transfer Size | Est Savings |
|---|---|---|
| id.nbcuni.com/websdk/v2/identity-sdk.min.js | 209.8 KiB | 158.5 KiB |
| /pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202604170101/pubads_impl.js?cb=31... | 187.4 KiB | 123.2 KiB |
| micro.rubiconproject.com/prebid/dynamic/24610.js | 129.9 KiB | 93.6 KiB |
| cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202505.2.0/otBannerSdk.js | 119.0 KiB | 60.7 KiB |
| c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js | 90.5 KiB | 39.0 KiB |
| jssdkcdns.mparticle.com/js/v2/us1-58b94ff38714bc47bdab2e66cf8e063c/mparticle.js | 57.8 KiB | 34.4 KiB |
| app.mps.vsnt.net/fetch/ext/load-syfy-d8-web.js?nowrite=2 | 57.6 KiB | 28.6 KiB |
| /sites/syfy/files/js/js_nDQLYdWjPTcTaTEGeObUHmwug2XAPDAJM... | 46.7 KiB | 25.0 KiB |
Minifying JavaScript files can reduce payload sizes and script parse time. Learn how to minify JavaScript.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| URL | Transfer Size | Est Savings |
|---|---|---|
| app.mps.vsnt.net/fetch/ext/load-syfy-d8-web.js?nowrite=2 | 57.6 KiB | 17.7 KiB |
Reduce unused rules from stylesheets and defer CSS not used for above-the-fold content to decrease bytes consumed by network activity. Learn how to reduce unused CSS.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| URL | Transfer Size | Est Savings |
|---|---|---|
| /sites/syfy/files/css/css_fJuI3mh3YgkeWPdSlYRqtvl_oIBslE5... | 25.2 KiB | 23.1 KiB |
| 21.9 KiB | 19.2 KiB |
More information about the performance of your application. These numbers don't directly affect the Performance score.
Accessibility
These checks highlight opportunities to improve the accessibility of your web app. Automatic detection can only detect a subset of issues and does not guarantee the accessibility of your web app, so manual testing is also encouraged.
Tables and lists
Screen readers have a specific way of announcing lists. Ensuring proper list structure aids screen reader output. Learn more about proper list structure.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| Failing Elements |
|---|
HBO's Harry Potter Show To Feature These Magical Beasts
Read Now
Everything We … div.content-primary > section.hero-carousel > div.swiper > ul#swiper-wrapper-127efdb1b5488a7b |
SYFY WIRE
How Twilight Zone Led To Hollywood Creative Protection
SYFY WIRE
Jack… div.site-section-wrapper > div.swiper__carousel > div.swiper > ul#swiper-wrapper-1a7df61d10cbfc97e |
1 / 12 div.site-section-wrapper > div.swiper__carousel > div.swiper > ul#swiper-wrapper-211bd4b35e358d22 |
1 / 6 div.site-section-wrapper > div.swiper__carousel > div.swiper > ul#swiper-wrapper-25cac465ceda8876 |
1 / 12 div.site-section-wrapper > div.swiper__carousel > div.swiper > ul#swiper-wrapper-630a38d410dbcb084 |
These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.
Best Practices
User Experience
Image display dimensions should match natural aspect ratio. Learn more about image aspect ratio.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| URL | Aspect Ratio (Displayed) | Aspect Ratio (Actual) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Harry Potter HBO Fantastic Beasts inset header div.teaser__image-wrapper > figure.teaser__image > picture > img | /sites/syfy/files/styles/16_9_xl/public/2026/04/inset-art... | 900 x 504 (1.79) | 960 x 540 (1.78) |
Ryan Coogler X-Files inset header div.teaser__image-wrapper > figure.teaser__image > picture > img | /sites/syfy/files/styles/16_9_xl/public/2026/04/inset-art... | 900 x 504 (1.79) | 960 x 540 (1.78) |
Kit Harington as Jon Snow holding up his wolf puppy in the Game of Thrones pilo… div.teaser__image-wrapper > figure.teaser__image > picture > img | /sites/syfy/files/styles/16_9_xl/public/2026/04/DRUPAL6_A... | 900 x 504 (1.79) | 960 x 540 (1.78) |
Artemis II splashdown div.teaser__image-wrapper > figure.teaser__image > picture > img | /sites/syfy/files/styles/16_9_xl/public/2026/04/artemisii... | 900 x 504 (1.79) | 960 x 540 (1.78) |
Twilight Zone Still Valley header div.teaser__image-wrapper > figure.teaser__image > picture > img | /sites/syfy/files/styles/16_9_xl/public/2026/04/article-p... | 900 x 504 (1.79) | 960 x 540 (1.78) |
Disclosure Day UFO header div.teaser__image-wrapper > figure.teaser__image > picture > img | /sites/syfy/files/styles/16_9_xl/public/2026/04/article-p... | 900 x 504 (1.79) | 960 x 540 (1.78) |
General
Errors logged to the console indicate unresolved problems. They can come from network request failures and other browser concerns. Learn more about this errors in console diagnostic audit
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| Source | Description |
|---|---|
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID | |
jssdkcdns.mparticle.com/js/v2/us1-58b94ff38714bc47bdab2e66cf8e063c/mparticle.js line 40, col 182681 | Your workspace is not enabled to retrieve user audiences. |
SEO
These checks ensure that your page is following basic search engine optimization advice. There are many additional factors Lighthouse does not score here that may affect your search ranking, including performance on Core Web Vitals. Learn more about Google Search Essentials.