Report Summary

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liveblog.wtop.com

WTOP | Washington’s Top News | DC, MD & VA News, Traffic & Weather

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

liveblog.wtop.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Liveblog.wtop.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

liveblog.wtop.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

liveblog.wtop.com

1955 ms

WhiteLabel.css

23 ms

AllEvents.aspx

46 ms

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21 ms

css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 212 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Liveblog.wtop.com, 43% (91 requests) were made to Images.scribblelive.com and 18% (39 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Liveblog.wtop.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 933.8 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Liveblog.wtop.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. 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 149.2 kB

  • Original 188.1 kB
  • After minification 154.9 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 33.2 kB, which is 18% 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 149.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 159.8 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Liveblog WTOP images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 465.6 kB

  • Original 745.3 kB
  • After minification 744.5 kB
  • After compression 279.7 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 465.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 159.1 kB

  • Original 180.3 kB
  • After minification 136.6 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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. Liveblog.wtop.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (30%)

Requests Now

204

After Optimization

143

The browser has sent 204 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Liveblog WTOP. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

liveblog.wtop.com SEO score

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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 Liveblog.wtop.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 Liveblog.wtop.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 description is not detected on the main page of Liveblog WTOP. 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: