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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

dr.wral.com

WRAL.com - Raleigh News, Weather, Triangle Traffic and NC Lottery

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

986 ms

Page Rendered

138 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dr.wral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dr.wral.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dr.wral.com

31 ms

dr.wral.com

304 ms

main.min.css

293 ms

css

25 ms

65da5ff994bbf-media_e9606e65a805433ca4e8ed6491103fb8-DMID1-6225yvmp5.jpg

3 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Dr.wral.com, 36% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (356 ms) belongs to the original domain Dr.wral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

678.3 kB

After Optimization

407.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dr.wral.com main page is 678.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 361.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 514 B, 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 2.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 361.9 kB
  • After minification 360.7 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. Dr WRAL images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 267.2 kB

  • Original 312.6 kB
  • After minification 312.6 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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. Dr.wral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dr WRAL. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dr.wral.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

dr.wral.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

dr.wral.com SEO score

100

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

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 Dr.wral.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 Dr.wral.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 Dr WRAL. 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: