Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

thetvwatercooler.com

The TV Watercooler - Canadian TV News and Soap Spoilers

Page Load Speed

15.9 sec in total

First Response

5.3 sec

Resources Loaded

8.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

Visit thetvwatercooler.com now to see the best up-to-date The TV Watercooler content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thetvwatercooler.com

The TV Watercooler - Canadian television blog by Jeevan Brar for the latest in casting news, announcements and soap spoilers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetvwatercooler.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.3 sec and then it took 10.5 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

thetvwatercooler.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.419

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thetvwatercooler.com

5348 ms

canvas.css

140 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

211 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

213 ms

block.css

215 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Thetvwatercooler.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thetvwatercooler.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 263.5 kB (36%)

Content Size

735.8 kB

After Optimization

472.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Thetvwatercooler.com main page is 735.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 293.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 260.6 kB

  • Original 293.5 kB
  • After minification 287.4 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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 260.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 172.6 kB
  • After minification 172.6 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. The TV Watercooler images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 136 B

  • Original 266.1 kB
  • After minification 266.1 kB
  • After compression 265.9 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

-76%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 875 B

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. Thetvwatercooler.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (81%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The TV Watercooler. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thetvwatercooler.com accessibility score

90

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Best Practices

thetvwatercooler.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thetvwatercooler.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

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 Thetvwatercooler.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 Thetvwatercooler.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 The TV Watercooler. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: