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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

wavebroadband.net

Home Internet, TV, & Phone Services | Astound Broadband | Meet Our Companies: RCN, Grande, Wave, & enTouch

Page Load Speed

64.9 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

50.6 sec

Page Rendered

14 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wavebroadband.net page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 64.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 9 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

wavebroadband.net performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value42.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value57,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.346

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value80.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wavebroadband.net

244 ms

www.gowave.com

220 ms

www.astound.com

789 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

143 ms

style.min.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 189 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wavebroadband.net, 40% (75 requests) were made to Astound.com and 17% (33 requests) were made to S.amazon-adsystem.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Astound.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 436.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wavebroadband.net main page is 1.5 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. 80% 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 847.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 357.8 kB

  • Original 416.1 kB
  • After minification 377.2 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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 357.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 847.8 kB
  • After minification 783.0 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. Wave Broadband images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 174.0 kB
  • After minification 174.0 kB
  • After compression 170.9 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 111.3 kB
  • After minification 111.3 kB
  • After compression 100.3 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. Wavebroadband.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 107 (66%)

Requests Now

161

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 161 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wave Broadband. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

wavebroadband.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wavebroadband.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

wavebroadband.net SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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