Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% 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

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

wgem.com

WGEM | Local News, Weather, Sports | Quincy, IL

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wgem.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 10.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wgem.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,970 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wgem.com

67 ms

www.wgem.com

116 ms

platform.min.css

29 ms

container-e.css

76 ms

wnaffiliateconfig.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Wgem.com, 25% (44 requests) were made to Wgem.images.worldnow.com and 20% (35 requests) were made to D2ioe7v385j9xr.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Wgem.images.worldnow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (48%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Wgem.com main page is 5.2 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. Javascripts take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 147.3 kB

  • Original 179.8 kB
  • After minification 175.0 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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 147.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 95.5 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. WGEM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 645.3 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 1.8 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 397.4 kB

  • Original 494.7 kB
  • After minification 469.8 kB
  • After compression 97.3 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. Wgem.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 397.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (40%)

Requests Now

167

After Optimization

101

The browser has sent 167 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WGEM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wgem.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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

wgem.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

wgem.com SEO score

99

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

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