Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

erietvnews.com

Erie News Now | WICU and WSEE in Erie, PA

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

854 ms

erietvnews.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Erietvnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

erietvnews.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,990 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.163

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

erietvnews.com

27 ms

www.erienewsnow.com

185 ms

platform.min.css

187 ms

container-e.css

855 ms

wnaffiliateconfig.js

817 ms

Our browser made a total of 521 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Erietvnews.com, 16% (82 requests) were made to D2ioe7v385j9xr.cloudfront.net and 10% (50 requests) were made to Wicu.images.worldnow.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Showads.pubmatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.8 MB (39%)

Content Size

12.3 MB

After Optimization

7.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Erietvnews.com main page is 12.3 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 6.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 350.0 kB

  • Original 421.4 kB
  • After minification 405.8 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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. 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 350.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 738.3 kB

  • Original 6.6 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Obviously, Erie Tv News needs image optimization as it can save up to 738.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 3.3 MB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB
  • After compression 1.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 3.3 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 497.8 kB

  • Original 617.2 kB
  • After minification 579.6 kB
  • After compression 119.4 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. Erietvnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 497.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 232 (47%)

Requests Now

497

After Optimization

265

The browser has sent 497 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Erie Tv News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 104 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

erietvnews.com accessibility score

86

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-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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

SEO Factors

erietvnews.com SEO score

92

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

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 Erietvnews.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 Erietvnews.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 Erie Tv News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: