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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

whro.org

WHRO - Home

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

477 ms

Page Rendered

500 ms

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About Website

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

WHRO Public Media is dedicated to enhancing the lives of the citizens in the communities it serves by responding to their need to be engaged, educated, entertained and enlightened.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whro.org page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 977 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whro.org performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whro.org

159 ms

template.css

36 ms

whro.mediaplayers.css

27 ms

jquery.min.js

51 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Whro.org, 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Mediaplayer.whro.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (229 ms) relates to the external source Aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 540.8 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

838.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whro.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 653.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 39.6 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 39.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 653.5 kB
  • After minification 634.3 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. WHRO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 299.3 kB

  • Original 460.3 kB
  • After minification 438.4 kB
  • After compression 161.0 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 299.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 182.7 kB

  • Original 212.2 kB
  • After minification 169.9 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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. Whro.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (43%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WHRO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

whro.org

whro.org

159 ms

template.css

template.css

36 ms

whro.mediaplayers.css

whro.mediaplayers.css

27 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

51 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

29 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

31 ms

caption.js

caption.js

30 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

48 ms

template.js

template.js

48 ms

css

css

26 ms

q

q

13 ms

JofWJmZuEeOchiIACmOLpg.js

JofWJmZuEeOchiIACmOLpg.js

14 ms

whro.utilities.js

whro.utilities.js

96 ms

whro.logger.js

whro.logger.js

96 ms

whro.mediaplayers.js

whro.mediaplayers.js

97 ms

whro_org.js

whro_org.js

99 ms

getPrimetimeTVSchedule.js

getPrimetimeTVSchedule.js

101 ms

getCurrentlyPlayingOnRadio.js

getCurrentlyPlayingOnRadio.js

101 ms

pledgeWidgetAndBanner.js

pledgeWidgetAndBanner.js

99 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

95 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

95 ms

getad

getad

229 ms

json

json

72 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

90 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

91 ms

logo_whro.png

logo_whro.png

91 ms

searchIcon.png

searchIcon.png

91 ms

anrocharleston3.jpg

anrocharleston3.jpg

94 ms

468283774-1180.jpg

468283774-1180.jpg

98 ms

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468264352-1180.jpg

95 ms

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468266024-1180.jpg

99 ms

468479271-1180.jpg

468479271-1180.jpg

95 ms

miniFooter-pbs.png

miniFooter-pbs.png

91 ms

miniFooter-npr.png

miniFooter-npr.png

91 ms

miniFooter-edu.png

miniFooter-edu.png

95 ms

miniFooter-comm.png

miniFooter-comm.png

97 ms

tv-primetime.js

tv-primetime.js

68 ms

stations-live.js

stations-live.js

67 ms

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cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3T8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff

58 ms

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k3k702ZOKiLJc3WVjuplzHhCUOGz7vYGh680lGh-uXM.woff

61 ms

IcoMoon.woff

IcoMoon.woff

31 ms

pubads_impl_81.js

pubads_impl_81.js

28 ms

collect

collect

43 ms

show_companion_ad.js

show_companion_ad.js

43 ms

container.html

container.html

40 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

logo_whrv89.5.png

logo_whrv89.5.png

49 ms

btn_play.png

btn_play.png

48 ms

logo_whro90.3.png

logo_whro90.3.png

50 ms

logo_altradio_rcol.png

logo_altradio_rcol.png

49 ms

logo_voice_rcol.png

logo_voice_rcol.png

50 ms

logo_defenestration_rcol.png

logo_defenestration_rcol.png

50 ms

logo_1920s_rcol.png

logo_1920s_rcol.png

51 ms

Accessibility Review

whro.org accessibility score

74

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

<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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

whro.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

whro.org SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Whro.org 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 Whro.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

whro.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of WHRO. 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: