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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

universal-radio.com

Universal Radio shortwave, amateur, scanner and CB radio since 1942

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

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Universal Radio Inc. Selling new and used amateur and shortwave radio equipment since 1942

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Key Findings

We analyzed Universal-radio.com page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

universal-radio.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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120 ms

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5508 ms

eQSLSearch.gif

76 ms

ur_tile.gif

26 ms

urlogo.gif

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Universal-radio.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Eqsl.cc and 2% (1 request) were made to Seal-centralohio.bbb.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) relates to the external source Seal-centralohio.bbb.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.1 kB (31%)

Content Size

282.6 kB

After Optimization

194.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Universal-radio.com main page is 282.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 264.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 13.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 74.3 kB

  • Original 264.6 kB
  • After minification 190.3 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. Obviously, Universal Radio needs image optimization as it can save up to 74.3 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (17%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

34

  • Images

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Universal Radio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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120 ms

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5508 ms

eQSLSearch.gif

eQSLSearch.gif

76 ms

ur_tile.gif

ur_tile.gif

26 ms

urlogo.gif

urlogo.gif

46 ms

header.gif

header.gif

50 ms

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52 ms

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36 ms

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41 ms

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59 ms

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56 ms

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search.gif

68 ms

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about.gif

75 ms

maptour.gif

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81 ms

links.gif

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73 ms

events.gif

events.gif

78 ms

catalog.gif

catalog.gif

75 ms

intro.gif

intro.gif

92 ms

cats.gif

cats.gif

96 ms

tracking.gif

tracking.gif

115 ms

faq.gif

faq.gif

93 ms

dxing.gif

dxing.gif

103 ms

twitter2.png

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112 ms

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116 ms

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128 ms

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116 ms

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127 ms

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148 ms

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138 ms

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141 ms

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150 ms

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141 ms

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158 ms

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166 ms

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240 ms

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186 ms

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208 ms

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179 ms

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82 ms

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235 ms

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174 ms

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212 ms

Accessibility Review

universal-radio.com accessibility score

86

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

universal-radio.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

universal-radio.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Universal-radio.com 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 Universal-radio.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Universal Radio. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: