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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

skywaves.com

skywaves.com - Strategic Technical Consulting for Broadcasters

Page Load Speed

316 ms in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

187 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skywaves.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 274 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.

Performance Metrics

skywaves.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skywaves.com

42 ms

skywaves.com

72 ms

Skywaves%20Banner.png

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Skywaves.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (72 ms) belongs to the original domain Skywaves.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

107.0 kB

After Optimization

104.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Skywaves.com main page is 107.0 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 104.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 1.7 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 515 B

  • Original 104.1 kB
  • After minification 103.6 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. Skywaves images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • Images

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skywaves. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

skywaves.com accessibility score

50

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

skywaves.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

skywaves.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skywaves.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 Skywaves.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Skywaves. 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: