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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

empire.wnyc.org

WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

274 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Empire WNYC content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about empire.wnyc.org

WNYC is America's most listened-to public radio station and the producer of award-winning programs and podcasts like Radiolab, On the Media, and The Brian Lehrer Show.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Empire.wnyc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

empire.wnyc.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,940 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

345 ms

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12 ms

2de421cfd460.css

39 ms

font-awesome.min.css

63 ms

overhaul-cfc0babd1d27df648893f33cec281b06.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 151 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Empire.wnyc.org, 8% (12 requests) were made to Media.wnyc.org and 7% (11 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Media2.wnyc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (70%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

748.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Empire.wnyc.org main page is 2.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 67.2 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 8.8 kB, which is 13% 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 54.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 64.2 kB

  • Original 209.1 kB
  • After minification 144.9 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. Obviously, Empire WNYC needs image optimization as it can save up to 64.2 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 571.3 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 1.5 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 84.2 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 95.9 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. Empire.wnyc.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 84.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 99 (75%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Empire WNYC. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

empire.wnyc.org accessibility score

93

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

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

empire.wnyc.org best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

empire.wnyc.org 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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Empire.wnyc.org 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 Empire.wnyc.org 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

empire.wnyc.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Empire WNYC. 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: