Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

wgci.iheart.com

WGCI-FM - Chicago's #1 for Hip-Hop & R&B

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

951 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wgci.iheart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wgci.iheart.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,960 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wgci.iheart.com

1414 ms

core.css

30 ms

app.css

22 ms

ihearticons.css

28 ms

station_styles.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 228 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Wgci.iheart.com, 18% (41 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 14% (32 requests) were made to Content.clearchannel.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Wgci.iheart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (37%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Wgci.iheart.com main page is 4.3 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. 85% 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 105.5 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 110.1 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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 22.1 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 105.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 178.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. WGCI Iheart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 425.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 237.6 kB

  • Original 291.8 kB
  • After minification 268.7 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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. Wgci.iheart.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 237.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 142 (63%)

Requests Now

226

After Optimization

84

The browser has sent 226 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WGCI Iheart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 97 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wgci.iheart.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wgci.iheart.com best practices score

62

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

wgci.iheart.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wgci.iheart.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 Wgci.iheart.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 data is detected on the main page of WGCI Iheart. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: