Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

wbtv.com

WBTV | On Your Side | First Alert Weather | Charlotte, NC

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

627 ms

wbtv.com screenshot

About Website

Visit wbtv.com now to see the best up-to-date WBTV content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wbtv.com

WBTV News in Charlotte delivers local news coverage in North and South Carolina and First Alert Weather

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wbtv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wbtv.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,790 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wbtv.com

118 ms

www.wbtv.com

879 ms

platform.min.css

26 ms

container-e.css

19 ms

wnaffiliateconfig.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 587 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Wbtv.com, 8% (48 requests) were made to Wbtv.images.worldnow.com and 6% (36 requests) were made to Ox-d.raycom.servedbyopenx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Sync1.intentiq.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.6 MB (42%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Wbtv.com main page is 8.7 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. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 196.2 kB

  • Original 238.6 kB
  • After minification 230.5 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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 196.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 160.1 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. WBTV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.7 MB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 MB
  • After compression 998.5 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 2.7 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 615.1 kB

  • Original 748.3 kB
  • After minification 661.9 kB
  • After compression 133.1 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. Wbtv.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 615.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 337 (68%)

Requests Now

498

After Optimization

161

The browser has sent 498 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WBTV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 135 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wbtv.com accessibility score

84

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

wbtv.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

wbtv.com SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Wbtv.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 Wbtv.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 WBTV. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: