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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

westmichiganstar.com

Star 105.7 - Grand Rapids' Listen at Work Station

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

528 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westmichiganstar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westmichiganstar.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westmichiganstar.com

209 ms

www.westmichiganstar.com

1203 ms

core.css

24 ms

app.css

17 ms

ihearticons.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Westmichiganstar.com, 28% (40 requests) were made to Content.clearchannel.com and 21% (30 requests) were made to Flint-img.ccrd.clearchannel.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Westmichiganstar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (46%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westmichiganstar.com main page is 2.9 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 89.0 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 80.7 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 25.9 kB, which is 24% 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 89.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Westmichigan Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 962.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 363.3 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 962.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 237.6 kB

  • Original 291.8 kB
  • After minification 268.7 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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. Westmichiganstar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 237.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (57%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westmichigan Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

westmichiganstar.com

westmichiganstar.com

209 ms

www.westmichiganstar.com

www.westmichiganstar.com

1203 ms

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core.css

24 ms

app.css

app.css

17 ms

ihearticons.css

ihearticons.css

15 ms

station_styles.css

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70 ms

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13 ms

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101 ms

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101 ms

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e2eDetect.js

e2eDetect.js

139 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

171 ms

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thumbCrop.php

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135 ms

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128 ms

timeline_more.html

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PollsController.js

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ads

ads

132 ms

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json2.js

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HTMLPlayer.js

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FlashPlayer.js

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EmbedPlayer.js

EmbedPlayer.js

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SharePanelManager.js

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LayoutManager.js

LayoutManager.js

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MediaManager.js

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PreRollManager.js

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GlobalDataObj.js

GlobalDataObj.js

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TrackingObject.js

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ads

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ads

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Accessibility Review

westmichiganstar.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

westmichiganstar.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

westmichiganstar.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Westmichiganstar.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 Westmichiganstar.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

westmichiganstar.com

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