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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

wlbg.com

WLBG — Your First Source For Local News

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

375 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wlbg.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wlbg.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wlbg.com

1665 ms

flashblock.css

34 ms

player.css

41 ms

gfw.css

44 ms

gfw3.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Wlbg.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Wlbg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.4 kB (16%)

Content Size

621.0 kB

After Optimization

518.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wlbg.com main page is 621.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 359.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 70.6 kB

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 70.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 359.3 kB
  • After minification 332.1 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. WLBG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 140.1 kB
  • After compression 138.5 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Wlbg.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (71%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WLBG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

wlbg.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

wlbg.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wlbg.com SEO score

64

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Wlbg.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 Wlbg.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 WLBG. 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: