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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

wkms.org

WKMS, Murray State's NPR Station | WKMS

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wkms.org page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wkms.org performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,550 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wkms.org

85 ms

www.wkms.org

796 ms

www.wkms.org

28 ms

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

34 ms

All.min.4b4833d6fd1d7b8e09869a5338764779.gz.js

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Wkms.org, 70% (39 requests) were made to Npr.brightspotcdn.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (796 ms) belongs to the original domain Wkms.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wkms.org main page is 2.3 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. 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 193.0 kB

  • Original 228.5 kB
  • After minification 189.2 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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 39.3 kB, which is 17% 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 193.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 133.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. WKMS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 143 B

  • Original 516.1 kB
  • After minification 516.1 kB
  • After compression 516.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 66.1 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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. Wkms.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (21%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WKMS. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

wkms.org accessibility score

89

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.

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

wkms.org 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

wkms.org SEO score

84

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

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 Wkms.org 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 Wkms.org 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 WKMS. 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: