Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

wsyr.com

570 WSYR - Syracuse's Breaking News, Weather & Traffic Station

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

317 ms

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About Website

Visit wsyr.com now to see the best up-to-date WSYR content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wsyr.com

570 WSYR is Syracuse’s Breaking News Weather and Traffic station for Fulton, Oswego, Baldwinsville, Liverpool and all of Onondaga, Oswego and Madison counties. Listen to WSYR for talk programs includi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wsyr.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 1.5 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

wsyr.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,260 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wsyr.com

149 ms

wsyr.iheart.com

47 ms

core.css

33 ms

app.css

41 ms

ihearticons.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wsyr.com, 36% (41 requests) were made to Content.clearchannel.com and 25% (28 requests) were made to Flint-img.ccrd.clearchannel.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (523 ms) relates to the external source Img.ccrd.clearchannel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Wsyr.com main page is 2.5 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 757 B

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 2.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 123.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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, WSYR needs image optimization as it can save up to 123.6 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

-75%

Potential reduce by 713.7 kB

  • Original 953.6 kB
  • After minification 699.3 kB
  • After compression 239.8 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 713.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 337.4 kB

  • Original 404.1 kB
  • After minification 381.6 kB
  • After compression 66.7 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. Wsyr.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 337.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (50%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WSYR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wsyr.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wsyr.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wsyr.com SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wsyr.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Wsyr.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of WSYR. 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: