Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

wkyufm.org

WKU Public Radio | The Public Radio Service of Western Kentucky University

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

863 ms

Page Rendered

535 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wkyufm.org page load time and found that the first response time was 183 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

wkyufm.org performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wkyufm.org

183 ms

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16 ms

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30 ms

css_XHTm2cMU6sD6pzlNwtS19lgDRK8GjAz14nQaxKhle30.css

27 ms

css_uY1_bHNTrAu2UuUwumZ6AuPc2Egu5fV5FiJ2-fv7ySk.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Wkyufm.org, 51% (29 requests) were made to Mediad.publicbroadcasting.net and 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (303 ms) relates to the external source Tpc.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 988.0 kB (48%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Wkyufm.org main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 882.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 69.7 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 87.5 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. 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 69.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 798.0 kB
  • After minification 766.2 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. Wkyufm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 624.9 kB

  • Original 882.0 kB
  • After minification 767.0 kB
  • After compression 257.1 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 624.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 261.7 kB

  • Original 305.3 kB
  • After minification 300.5 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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. Wkyufm.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (42%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wkyufm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wkyufm.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wkyufm.org 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

wkyufm.org SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Wkyufm.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 Wkyufm.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

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