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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

townsquaremedia.com

Townsquare Media - Digital Media & Radio Advertising Company

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

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

Townsquare Media owns and operates a diversified group of leading radio, digital, marketing services, and live event properties across the United States.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Townsquaremedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

townsquaremedia.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.townsquaremedia.com

109 ms

browser.tools.min.js

45 ms

fonts.css

5467 ms

style.css

131 ms

global.min.js

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Townsquaremedia.com, 57% (43 requests) were made to Wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net and 25% (19 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) relates to the external source Cloud.typography.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 822.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Townsquaremedia.com main page is 6.3 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. 75% 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. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 35.3 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.2 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 34.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 315.3 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Townsquare Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 177.2 kB

  • Original 271.8 kB
  • After minification 271.7 kB
  • After compression 94.6 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 177.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 295.8 kB

  • Original 621.7 kB
  • After minification 616.2 kB
  • After compression 325.8 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. Townsquaremedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 295.8 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (16%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

46

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Townsquare Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

townsquaremedia.com accessibility score

58

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

townsquaremedia.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

townsquaremedia.com SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Townsquaremedia.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 Townsquaremedia.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 Townsquare Media. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: