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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gateway978.com

Gateway 97.8 | Our Local Radio for Basildon and East Thurrock

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

8.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gateway978.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 9.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gateway978.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gateway978.com

125 ms

www.gateway978.com

2444 ms

dashicons.min.css

52 ms

thickbox.css

55 ms

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77 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Gateway978.com, 11% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Gateway978.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 316.6 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gateway978.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 607.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 268.5 kB

  • Original 312.5 kB
  • After minification 312.5 kB
  • After compression 44.0 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 268.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 607.8 kB
  • After minification 592.2 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. Gateway 97 8 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 468.5 kB
  • After minification 468.5 kB
  • After compression 436.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 89 B

  • Original 121.6 kB
  • After minification 121.6 kB
  • After compression 121.5 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. Gateway978.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (48%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gateway 97 8. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

gateway978.com accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gateway978.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gateway978.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Gateway978.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 Gateway978.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

gateway978.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Gateway 97 8. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: