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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

wlex18.net

LEX 18, WLEX, Lexington, Kentucky Breaking News, Weather, Sports and Traffic | LEX18 | WLEX-TV | Lex18.com

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

865 ms

Page Rendered

825 ms

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About Website

Visit wlex18.net now to see the best up-to-date W LEX18 content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wlex18.net

WLEX Lex 18 News brings you breaking and developing city news, weather, traffic and sports coverage from the Lexington metro area and across Kentucky on WLEX-TV and Lex18.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wlex18.net page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wlex18.net performance score

9

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.233

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value66.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wlex18.net

32 ms

www.lex18.com

48 ms

fontawesome.css

78 ms

brands.css

76 ms

solid.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wlex18.net, 53% (52 requests) were made to Ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com and 11% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (534 ms) relates to the external source Warp.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (27%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wlex18.net main page is 5.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 302.5 kB

  • Original 381.3 kB
  • After minification 345.7 kB
  • After compression 78.8 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 302.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 184.2 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. W LEX18 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 877.7 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 1.0 MB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

  • Original 167.3 kB
  • After minification 141.7 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. Wlex18.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (25%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of W LEX18. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wlex18.net

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32 ms

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48 ms

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78 ms

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76 ms

solid.css

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76 ms

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145 ms

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58 ms

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39 ms

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34 ms

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59 ms

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67 ms

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202 ms

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28 ms

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26 ms

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534 ms

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35 ms

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120 ms

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93 ms

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88 ms

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92 ms

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Accessibility Review

wlex18.net accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

Best Practices

wlex18.net best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

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

wlex18.net 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

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 Wlex18.net 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 Wlex18.net 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

wlex18.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of W LEX18. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: