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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

gorilla-radio.com

Gorilla Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate med...

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

400 ms

Resources Loaded

901 ms

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

Welcome to gorilla-radio.com homepage info - get ready to check Gorilla Radio best content right away, or after learning these important things about gorilla-radio.com

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. The show is archived at: www.gorilla-radio.com. The GR blog is at: gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com, and you can find and support the program ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gorilla-radio.com page load time and found that the first response time was 400 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gorilla-radio.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gorilla-radio.com

400 ms

itunes-feed.css

31 ms

style.min.css

45 ms

merriweather-plus-montserrat-plus-inconsolata.css

36 ms

genericons.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Gorilla-radio.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to 1.gravatar.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) relates to the external source Lh4.googleusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.1 kB (34%)

Content Size

384.7 kB

After Optimization

254.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gorilla-radio.com main page is 384.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 172.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 153.2 kB
  • After minification 150.7 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 124.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 342 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Gorilla Radio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 895 B

  • Original 172.8 kB
  • After minification 172.8 kB
  • After compression 171.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 55.2 kB
  • After minification 55.2 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. Gorilla-radio.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (69%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gorilla Radio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gorilla-radio.com accessibility score

91

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gorilla-radio.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

SEO Factors

gorilla-radio.com SEO score

87

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

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 Gorilla-radio.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 Gorilla-radio.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 Gorilla Radio. 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: