Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

nycwave.com

New York City Guide and Directory - Nycwave

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

403 ms

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About Website

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Nycwave is a NYC guide and business directory. Find recommendations for NYC attractions, events, businesses and things to do in New York. Submit your NYC business listing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nycwave.com page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 4.5 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

nycwave.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nycwave.com

247 ms

css

71 ms

global.css

65 ms

cv.css

144 ms

cvpro.min.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Nycwave.com, 26% (22 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Nycwave.com 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 98.0 kB

  • Original 115.0 kB
  • After minification 104.6 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 98.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Nycwave images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 56.0 kB

  • Original 310.1 kB
  • After minification 299.7 kB
  • After compression 254.1 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 56.0 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 181.7 kB
  • After minification 181.7 kB
  • After compression 147.6 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. Nycwave.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.1 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (67%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nycwave. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nycwave.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

nycwave.com 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

SEO Factors

nycwave.com SEO score

90

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

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 Nycwave.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 Nycwave.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 Nycwave. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: