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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

wchl.com

Chapelboro - Chapel Hill and Carrboro News, Photos, and Events

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

959 ms

wchl.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to wchl.com homepage info - get ready to check Wchl best content right away, or after learning these important things about wchl.com

Local news, sports, lifestyle, and opinions. Covering Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Chatham County, UNC, the Tar Heels, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wchl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wchl.com performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.843

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value53.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wchl.com

46 ms

www.chapelboro.com

279 ms

chapelboro.com

126 ms

js

53 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 187 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wchl.com, 26% (48 requests) were made to Chapelboro.com and 25% (47 requests) were made to Chapelboromedia.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (961 ms) relates to the external source Listen.streamon.fm.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (25%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

7.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wchl.com main page is 9.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 286.9 kB

  • Original 338.7 kB
  • After minification 323.0 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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 286.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 187.2 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 6.2 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. Wchl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 MB
  • After compression 760.9 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 1.8 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 19.9 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Wchl.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (54%)

Requests Now

175

After Optimization

80

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 175 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wchl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

wchl.com accessibility score

78

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

wchl.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

wchl.com SEO score

93

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

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 Wchl.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 Wchl.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

wchl.com

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