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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

wgcu.org

WGCU: PBS and NPR for Southwest Florida | WGCU PBS & NPR for Southwest Florida

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wgcu.org page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wgcu.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,310 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wgcu.org

111 ms

wgcu.org

124 ms

cv.css

53 ms

cvpro.min.css

60 ms

style.min.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Wgcu.org, 9% (9 requests) were made to Pbsweather.org and 6% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (462 ms) relates to the external source Use.fontawesome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 422.8 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wgcu.org main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 986.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 222.1 kB

  • Original 261.2 kB
  • After minification 212.0 kB
  • After compression 39.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 49.2 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 222.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 186.4 kB

  • Original 986.3 kB
  • After minification 981.7 kB
  • After compression 799.9 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 186.4 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 194.9 kB
  • After compression 180.6 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. Wgcu.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (97%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WGCU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

wgcu.org accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

wgcu.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wgcu.org 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 Wgcu.org 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 Wgcu.org 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

wgcu.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: