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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ideastream.com

Ideastream Public Media Home | Ideastream Public Media

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Ideastream Public Media is the home of Northeast Ohio's member-supported public broadcasting stations WVIZ, WKSU, and WCLV.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ideastream.com page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 2.4 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

ideastream.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,030 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ideastream.com

85 ms

742 ms

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

29 ms

All.min.4b4833d6fd1d7b8e09869a5338764779.gz.js

64 ms

gpt.js

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ideastream.com, 72% (36 requests) were made to Npr.brightspotcdn.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (742 ms) relates to the external source Ideastream.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 239.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ideastream.com main page is 1.6 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 825.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 229.2 kB

  • Original 270.7 kB
  • After minification 224.6 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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 46.2 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 229.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 825.1 kB
  • After minification 816.2 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. Ideastream images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 23 B

  • Original 476.4 kB
  • After minification 476.4 kB
  • After compression 476.4 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. Ideastream.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (17%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ideastream. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ideastream.com

ideastream.com

85 ms

742 ms

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

29 ms

All.min.4b4833d6fd1d7b8e09869a5338764779.gz.js

All.min.4b4833d6fd1d7b8e09869a5338764779.gz.js

64 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

191 ms

bsp-analytics.min.3d492319d8b084de04ab3a208c32f0b5.gz.js

bsp-analytics.min.3d492319d8b084de04ab3a208c32f0b5.gz.js

59 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

23 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

178 ms

css

css

52 ms

9 ms

9 ms

260 ms

34 ms

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13 ms

17 ms

16 ms

34 ms

35 ms

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35 ms

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36 ms

39 ms

38 ms

120 ms

129 ms

120 ms

121 ms

130 ms

122 ms

128 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

4 ms

156 ms

api.min.js

api.min.js

183 ms

70 ms

70 ms

70 ms

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70 ms

63 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

28 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

144 ms

03523cf578d69fa92322.7fd94fa817347c6bd7becf26441c6613.ttf

03523cf578d69fa92322.7fd94fa817347c6bd7becf26441c6613.ttf

58 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

167 ms

13a29228654d5c5ec9c4.7b0eb73b656115d05b57f4fa7ecf42d4.ttf

13a29228654d5c5ec9c4.7b0eb73b656115d05b57f4fa7ecf42d4.ttf

56 ms

0cea39826bd36bbfe330.149b470671f9f421e78f806a06dd415d.ttf

0cea39826bd36bbfe330.149b470671f9f421e78f806a06dd415d.ttf

56 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

167 ms

4f39c5796e60c9d8e732.cd710cfd3cd36443d1c66b0d79d445c5.ttf

4f39c5796e60c9d8e732.cd710cfd3cd36443d1c66b0d79d445c5.ttf

57 ms

Accessibility Review

ideastream.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

ideastream.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

ideastream.com SEO score

82

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

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 Ideastream.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 Ideastream.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ideastream. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: