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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

fox6.com

FOX6 News Milwaukee | Wisconsin & Local Milwaukee News WITI

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

944 ms

About Website

Visit fox6.com now to see the best up-to-date FOX6 content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fox6.com

Milwaukee news, weather, traffic and sports from FOX6, serving southeast Wisconsin. Get breaking news updates and stream FOX6 News and WakeUp live.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fox6.com page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fox6.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value72.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fox6now.com

198 ms

css

80 ms

home.rs.css

74 ms

ee9020b9e8759d8047b3e6e1b19e904659be969bcacf8df6a19a98099e63d7cc

52 ms

ag.core.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 191 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Fox6.com, 8% (16 requests) were made to Static.foxtv.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to Fox6now.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) relates to the external source Fox6now.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (79%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

317.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fox6.com main page is 1.5 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 240.6 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 1.1 MB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 3.5 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. FOX6 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 153 B

  • Original 30.2 kB
  • After minification 30.1 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 120.7 kB
  • After minification 120.7 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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. Fox6.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (68%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FOX6. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fox6.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

fox6.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

fox6.com SEO score

84

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 Fox6.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 Fox6.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 FOX6. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: