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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

955thelou.com

St. Louis #1 station for R&B - WFUN-FM | 96.3 R&B for The Lou

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

673 ms

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About Website

Visit 955thelou.com now to see the best up-to-date 955the Lou content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about 955thelou.com

Listen to the NEW 96.3 R&B for The Lou, playing a mix of R&B and throwback music based in St. Louis. See entertainment lineup, playlist, contests, blogs, and more. Listen LIVE on Audacy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 955thelou.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

955thelou.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.194

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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16 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original 955thelou.com, 36% (19 requests) were made to Images.radio.com and 30% (16 requests) were made to Audacy.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) relates to the external source Images.radio.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

903.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of 955thelou.com main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 213.3 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 1.2 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 173.0 kB
  • After minification 172.0 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. 955the Lou images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 523.2 kB
  • After minification 523.2 kB
  • After compression 518.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (43%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 955the Lou. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

955thelou.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

955thelou.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

955thelou.com SEO score

82

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 955thelou.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 955thelou.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

955thelou.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of 955the Lou. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: