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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

m.wbaltv.com

Baltimore News, Weather and Sports - Maryland News - WBAL-TV 11 News

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

19 ms

Resources Loaded

767 ms

Page Rendered

576 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing M WBAL TV content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about m.wbaltv.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.wbaltv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 19 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.wbaltv.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wbaltv.com

19 ms

script.js

42 ms

gpt.js

308 ms

client

70 ms

prebid.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original M.wbaltv.com, 18% (8 requests) were made to Kubrick.htvapps.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to Y884.wbaltv.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (363 ms) relates to the external source Handsomelythumb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 628.2 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

798.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of M.wbaltv.com main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 896.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 225.4 kB

  • Original 269.9 kB
  • After minification 251.5 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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 225.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 260.4 kB
  • After minification 239.7 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. M WBAL TV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 382.2 kB

  • Original 896.4 kB
  • After minification 896.4 kB
  • After compression 514.1 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 382.2 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (39%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M WBAL TV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.wbaltv.com

www.wbaltv.com

19 ms

script.js

script.js

42 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

308 ms

client

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70 ms

prebid.js

prebid.js

37 ms

main.js

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30 ms

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63 ms

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188 ms

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363 ms

Bootstrap.js

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244 ms

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247 ms

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4 ms

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213 ms

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341 ms

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179 ms

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213 ms

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70 ms

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69 ms

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65 ms

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306 ms

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157 ms

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162 ms

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243 ms

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51 ms

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38 ms

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188 ms

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34 ms

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197 ms

css

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212 ms

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190 ms

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148 ms

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166 ms

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85 ms

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25 ms

Accessibility Review

m.wbaltv.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

m.wbaltv.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

m.wbaltv.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 M.wbaltv.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 M.wbaltv.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

m.wbaltv.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of M WBAL TV. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: