Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

gorilla-radio.com

Gorilla Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate med...

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

699 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

gorilla-radio.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to gorilla-radio.com homepage info - get ready to check Gorilla Radio best content right away, or after learning these important things about gorilla-radio.com

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. The show is archived at: www.gorilla-radio.com. The GR blog is at: gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com, and you can find and support the program ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gorilla-radio.com page load time and found that the first response time was 699 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gorilla-radio.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gorilla-radio.com

699 ms

itunes-feed.css

35 ms

style.min.css

50 ms

frontend.min.css

54 ms

flatpickr.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Gorilla-radio.com, 19% (21 requests) were made to Encore.scdn.co and 15% (17 requests) were made to Embed-cdn.spotifycdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (930 ms) relates to the external source Open.spotify.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 567.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Gorilla-radio.com main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 180.2 kB
  • After minification 177.4 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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 144.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 409.3 kB
  • After minification 409.3 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. Gorilla Radio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 403.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 790.7 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 403.5 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 88.6 kB
  • After minification 73.4 kB
  • After compression 68.8 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. Gorilla-radio.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (62%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gorilla Radio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gorilla-radio.com accessibility score

87

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gorilla-radio.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

gorilla-radio.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 Gorilla-radio.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 Gorilla-radio.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 Gorilla Radio. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: