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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

wkow.com

WKOW 27 News | Madison, WI News, Weather & Sports

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

919 ms

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About Website

Welcome to wkow.com homepage info - get ready to check WKOW best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about wkow.com

South Central Wisconsin breaking news, weather and live video. Covering local politics, crime, health, education and sports for Madison and South Central Wisconsin.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wkow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 2.5 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

wkow.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value71.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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42 ms

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127 ms

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Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Wkow.com, 57% (68 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 9% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) relates to the external source Invstatic101.creativecdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 534.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wkow.com main page is 2.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 494.4 kB

  • Original 568.8 kB
  • After minification 499.6 kB
  • After compression 74.4 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 69.1 kB, which is 12% 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 494.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 485.4 kB
  • After minification 485.4 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. WKOW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 69.7 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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. Wkow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.4 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (48%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WKOW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

wkow.com accessibility score

70

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

wkow.com best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

wkow.com SEO score

84

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Wkow.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 Wkow.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

wkow.com

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