Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

cknw.com

News Talk 980 CKNW | Vancouver's News. Vancouver's Talk

Page Load Speed

20.3 sec in total

First Response

912 ms

Resources Loaded

15.9 sec

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

cknw.com screenshot

About Website

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News Talk 980 CKNW | Vancouver's News. Vancouver's Talk. Breaking News & Talk radio station. Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cknw.com page load time and found that the first response time was 912 ms and then it took 19.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cknw.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cknw.com

912 ms

bootstrap.css

147 ms

js_composer_front.css

149 ms

blogNews.css

152 ms

featureRotator.css

215 ms

Our browser made a total of 263 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Cknw.com, 19% (49 requests) were made to D2x3wmakafwqf5.cloudfront.net and 14% (37 requests) were made to D3of83nms6dskl.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (47%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Cknw.com main page is 5.7 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. 85% 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 220.8 kB

  • Original 292.1 kB
  • After minification 286.6 kB
  • After compression 71.3 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 220.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 207.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. CKNW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 804.7 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 1.7 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 554.3 kB

  • Original 910.9 kB
  • After minification 820.9 kB
  • After compression 356.6 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. Cknw.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 554.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 137 (54%)

Requests Now

253

After Optimization

116

The browser has sent 253 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CKNW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 90 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cknw.com accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

cknw.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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