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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

wbaltv.com

Baltimore News, Weather and Sports - Maryland News - WBAL-TV 11 News

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

868 ms

Page Rendered

595 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing WBAL TV content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about wbaltv.com

Get all the latest Baltimore news, weather and sports. WBAL-TV brings you the best in Maryland news online, anytime.

Visit wbaltv.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Wbaltv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wbaltv.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,470 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wbaltv.com

33 ms

script.js

46 ms

gpt.js

120 ms

prebid.js

186 ms

main.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wbaltv.com, 30% (14 requests) were made to Assets.htvapps.com and 15% (7 requests) were made to Kubrick.htvapps.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (482 ms) relates to the external source Handsomelythumb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 710.9 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

924.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Wbaltv.com main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 944.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 229.7 kB

  • Original 274.3 kB
  • After minification 255.4 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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 229.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 416.8 kB
  • After minification 392.3 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. WBAL TV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 456.6 kB

  • Original 944.5 kB
  • After minification 944.5 kB
  • After compression 487.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 456.6 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (35%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WBAL TV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.wbaltv.com

www.wbaltv.com

33 ms

script.js

script.js

46 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

120 ms

prebid.js

prebid.js

186 ms

main.js

main.js

160 ms

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203 ms

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231 ms

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482 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

383 ms

logo.png

logo.png

372 ms

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prod_amnews_iframe_section_braze.html

443 ms

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70 ms

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pubads_impl.js

243 ms

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448 ms

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218 ms

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260 ms

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189 ms

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188 ms

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340 ms

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252 ms

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258 ms

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183 ms

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162 ms

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243 ms

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169 ms

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169 ms

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169 ms

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157 ms

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75 ms

LB-Zone-2

LB-Zone-2

223 ms

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50 ms

css

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194 ms

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original.png

192 ms

skeleton.gif

skeleton.gif

182 ms

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36 ms

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36 ms

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80 ms

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65 ms

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66 ms

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52 ms

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15 ms

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18 ms

Accessibility Review

wbaltv.com accessibility score

94

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

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

wbaltv.com best practices score

75

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

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

wbaltv.com SEO score

84

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

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 Wbaltv.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 Wbaltv.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

wbaltv.com

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