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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

wdsu.com

New Orleans News, Weather and Sports - Louisiana News - WDSU Channel 6

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

362 ms

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About Website

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Get all the New Orleans news you need. With the latest New Orleans weather, sports and stories from around the state, WDSU is your news leader.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wdsu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wdsu.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,910 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.503

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wdsu.com

67 ms

www.wdsu.com

66 ms

core-common-redirect.js

15 ms

Bootstrap.js

21 ms

core-desktop.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 164 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Wdsu.com, 4% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (497 ms) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (41%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wdsu.com main page is 5.7 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 553.2 kB

  • Original 622.9 kB
  • After minification 585.6 kB
  • After compression 69.7 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 553.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 467.9 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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, WDSU needs image optimization as it can save up to 467.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 539.3 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 1.4 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 365 B

  • Original 794 B
  • After minification 712 B
  • After compression 429 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. Wdsu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 365 B or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (47%)

Requests Now

157

After Optimization

83

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 157 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WDSU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wdsu.com

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66 ms

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Accessibility Review

wdsu.com accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

wdsu.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

wdsu.com SEO score

79

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

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

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 Wdsu.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 Wdsu.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

wdsu.com

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