Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

wlap.com

NewsRadio 630 WLAP - The Home of the Kentucky Wildcats

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

562 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wlap.com page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wlap.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,090 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wlap.com

142 ms

wlap.iheart.com

2041 ms

core.css

65 ms

app.css

57 ms

ihearticons.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 180 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Wlap.com, 21% (38 requests) were made to Content.clearchannel.com and 16% (29 requests) were made to Flint-img.ccrd.clearchannel.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Jbsprinkle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (44%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Wlap.com main page is 3.5 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. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 108.2 kB

  • Original 134.7 kB
  • After minification 112.4 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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 22.3 kB, which is 17% 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 108.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 170.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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, WLAP needs image optimization as it can save up to 170.4 kB or 11% 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 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 415.3 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 1.0 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 237.6 kB

  • Original 291.8 kB
  • After minification 268.7 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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. Wlap.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 237.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (54%)

Requests Now

172

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 172 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WLAP. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 69 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wlap.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

wlap.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

wlap.com SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wlap.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Wlap.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 WLAP. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: