Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 66

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

northcountrypublicradio.org

NCPR: North Country Public Radio

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

northcountrypublicradio.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing North Country Public Radio content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about northcountrypublicradio.org

Member-supported public radio for the North Country serving communities in the Adirondacks, the St. Lawrence Valley, the Champlain Valley, the Thousand Islands, Jefferson County, Lewis County and the ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northcountrypublicradio.org page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northcountrypublicradio.org performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northcountrypublicradio.org

55 ms

northcountrypublicradio.org

150 ms

www.northcountrypublicradio.org

1774 ms

js

75 ms

gtm.js

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Northcountrypublicradio.org, 6% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Northcountrypublicradio.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (14%)

Content Size

11.1 MB

After Optimization

9.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Northcountrypublicradio.org main page is 11.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 213.3 kB

  • Original 290.6 kB
  • After minification 261.8 kB
  • After compression 77.3 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 213.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 10.2 MB
  • After minification 9.0 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, North Country Public Radio needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 468.4 kB
  • After minification 468.4 kB
  • After compression 440.1 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 152.5 kB
  • After minification 139.9 kB
  • After compression 109.7 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. Northcountrypublicradio.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (48%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Country Public 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 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northcountrypublicradio.org accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

northcountrypublicradio.org 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

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

northcountrypublicradio.org SEO score

66

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northcountrypublicradio.org 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 Northcountrypublicradio.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 North Country Public Radio. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: