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news.wbhm.org

WBHM 90.3 | NPR News for the Heart of Alabama

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

539 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.wbhm.org page load time and found that the first response time was 72 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.wbhm.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

news.wbhm.org

72 ms

news.wbhm.org

408 ms

bootstrap.min.css

95 ms

jquery.min.js

142 ms

bootstrap.min.js

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original News.wbhm.org, 16% (9 requests) were made to Wordpress.wbhm.org and 9% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (408 ms) belongs to the original domain News.wbhm.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 578.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

780.2 kB

In fact, the total size of News.wbhm.org main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 594.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.5 kB

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 57.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 594.8 kB
  • After minification 545.9 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. News WBHM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 221.9 kB

  • Original 395.2 kB
  • After minification 353.8 kB
  • After compression 173.3 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 221.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 249.8 kB

  • Original 296.5 kB
  • After minification 267.9 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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. News.wbhm.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (46%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News WBHM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

news.wbhm.org SEO score

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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 News.wbhm.org 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 News.wbhm.org 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 News WBHM. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: