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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

newschannel5.com

NewsChannel 5 Nashville WTVF - Breaking News, Weather, Traffic

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

878 ms

newschannel5.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newschannel5.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 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

newschannel5.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value62.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value44,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value117.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newschannel5.com

27 ms

www.newschannel5.com

28 ms

fontawesome.css

98 ms

brands.css

92 ms

solid.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Newschannel5.com, 41% (50 requests) were made to Ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com and 18% (22 requests) were made to Assets.scrippsdigital.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (733 ms) relates to the external source Ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (24%)

Content Size

8.5 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newschannel5.com main page is 8.5 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 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 283.6 kB

  • Original 363.9 kB
  • After minification 333.1 kB
  • After compression 80.3 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 283.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 339.1 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. News Channel 5 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 1.3 MB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 124.5 kB

  • Original 178.1 kB
  • After minification 150.1 kB
  • After compression 53.6 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. Newschannel5.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 124.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (38%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

68

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Channel 5. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

newschannel5.com

newschannel5.com

27 ms

www.newschannel5.com

www.newschannel5.com

28 ms

fontawesome.css

fontawesome.css

98 ms

brands.css

brands.css

92 ms

solid.css

solid.css

95 ms

all.js

all.js

174 ms

All.min.8f44c3d46b04035e33c0d70ff9384b73.gz.css

All.min.8f44c3d46b04035e33c0d70ff9384b73.gz.css

82 ms

cookie-consent.css

cookie-consent.css

81 ms

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92 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

160 ms

tsu4adm.css

tsu4adm.css

168 ms

All.min.4be952aed7b18e9b2fad95579ec7ba29.gz.js

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89 ms

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

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

89 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

182 ms

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103 ms

latest.min.js

latest.min.js

39 ms

pushly-sdk.min.js

pushly-sdk.min.js

174 ms

p.css

p.css

62 ms

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c89d10fc-bec5-4edf-9f7b-db4108ace6c7

149 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

147 ms

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logo-scripps.png

logo-scripps.png

146 ms

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445 ms

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embrace-header-2.png

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733 ms

embrace.png

embrace.png

730 ms

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339 ms

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235 ms

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266 ms

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267 ms

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336 ms

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337 ms

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361 ms

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333 ms

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359 ms

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360 ms

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335 ms

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483 ms

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analytics.js

analytics.js

446 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

442 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

230 ms

weather

weather

188 ms

breaking-news-alerts

breaking-news-alerts

220 ms

alerts

alerts

218 ms

school-closings-delays

school-closings-delays

219 ms

player.html

player.html

150 ms

js

js

139 ms

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apstag.js

apstag.js

265 ms

ima3.js

ima3.js

282 ms

hls.min.js

hls.min.js

258 ms

conviva-core-sdk.js

conviva-core-sdk.js

87 ms

conviva-html5native-impl.js

conviva-html5native-impl.js

86 ms

ua-parser.min.js

ua-parser.min.js

87 ms

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480x360-embrace.jpg

480x360-embrace.jpg

315 ms

overcast.png

overcast.png

273 ms

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linkid.js

linkid.js

45 ms

code-solid.svg

code-solid.svg

74 ms

stopwatch-solid.svg

stopwatch-solid.svg

65 ms

camcorder-solid.svg

camcorder-solid.svg

82 ms

return-solid.svg

return-solid.svg

68 ms

play-solid.svg

play-solid.svg

77 ms

next-solid.svg

next-solid.svg

79 ms

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80 ms

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83 ms

cc-solid.svg

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83 ms

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87 ms

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expand-wide-solid.svg

87 ms

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101 ms

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88 ms

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86 ms

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pathfora.min.js

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16 ms

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49 ms

scripps-override.css

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273 ms

PolyfillsModule.js

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36 ms

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25 ms

Targeting.php

Targeting.php

77 ms

Accessibility Review

newschannel5.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

newschannel5.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

newschannel5.com SEO score

83

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

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 Newschannel5.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 Newschannel5.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

newschannel5.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News Channel 5. 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: