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Visit wtop.com now to see the best up-to-date WTOP content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wtop.com
WTOP delivers the latest news, traffic and weather information to the Washington, D.C. region. See today’s top stories.
Visit wtop.comWe analyzed Wtop.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 217 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Wtop.com, 4% (9 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.
Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (13%)
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In fact, the total size of Wtop.com main page is 9.6 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. Images take 8.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 246.0 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 246.0 kB or 80% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 402.0 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. WTOP images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 538.8 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 538.8 kB or 64% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 83.9 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. Wtop.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.9 kB or 90% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (32%)
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The browser has sent 206 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WTOP. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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wtop.com accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
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
Links do not have a discernible name
Best practices
These items highlight common accessibility best practices.
Impact
Issue
The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">
wtop.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
Impact
Issue
Serves images with low resolution
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
wtop.com SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
Impact
Issue
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wtop.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 Wtop.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.
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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of WTOP. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: