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events.wlos.com

Asheville News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WLOS

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

390 ms

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About Website

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WLOS News 13 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Asheville, NC and nearby towns ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Events.wlos.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3 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

events.wlos.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

events.wlos.com

1240 ms

n.js

215 ms

vendor.css

108 ms

compiled.css

239 ms

ionicons.min.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Events.wlos.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Ox-d.sinclair.servedbyopenx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Events.wlos.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (73%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Events.wlos.com main page is 3.8 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. CSS take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 183.2 kB

  • Original 233.1 kB
  • After minification 228.3 kB
  • After compression 49.9 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 183.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 88.6 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. Events WLOS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 488.5 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 1.2 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 395.0 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. Events.wlos.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (67%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Events WLOS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Events.wlos.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Events.wlos.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 Events WLOS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: