Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

wandtv.com

wandtv.com | Central Illinois' Best Source for News and Weather

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

414 ms

wandtv.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Wandtv content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about wandtv.com

The official website for WAND News. Local news, live weather, and sports, along with many special features like Around Central Illinois and up-to-date breaking news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wandtv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wandtv.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value31,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wandtv.com

75 ms

www.wandtv.com

117 ms

platform.min.css

100 ms

container-e.css

40 ms

wnaffiliateconfig.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 188 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Wandtv.com, 32% (61 requests) were made to Wand.images.worldnow.com and 9% (16 requests) were made to Ftpcontent.worldnow.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (712 ms) relates to the external source Wand.images.worldnow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (49%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Wandtv.com main page is 6.6 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. 85% 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 244.3 kB

  • Original 285.5 kB
  • After minification 281.8 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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 244.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 571.0 kB

  • Original 3.1 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. Obviously, Wandtv needs image optimization as it can save up to 571.0 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB
  • After compression 750.7 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 2.1 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 332.6 kB

  • Original 420.5 kB
  • After minification 386.6 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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. Wandtv.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 332.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (49%)

Requests Now

176

After Optimization

90

The browser has sent 176 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wandtv. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wandtv.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.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

wandtv.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

wandtv.com 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

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