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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

wlobradio.com

WLOB Radio…The Lobster Network – You can't spell lobster without LOB

Page Load Speed

21.7 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

601 ms

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About Website

Visit wlobradio.com now to see the best up-to-date WLOB Radio content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wlobradio.com

WLOB is a radio station located in Portland, Maine, in the the United States. The station broadcasts on 1310am, and is popularly known as 'Maine's Big Talker'. The station is owned by Atlantic Coast R...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wlobradio.com page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 21.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

wlobradio.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,740 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wlobradio.com

316 ms

main.css

47 ms

common.css

59 ms

site_util.js

83 ms

scripts.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Wlobradio.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Mainstreamnetwork.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats2.radiocompanion.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Stats2.radiocompanion.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

418.4 kB

After Optimization

327.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wlobradio.com main page is 418.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 316.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 15.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 316.9 kB
  • After minification 306.2 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. WLOB Radio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 68.6 kB
  • After minification 55.2 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 53.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Wlobradio.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WLOB Radio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wlobradio.com

wlobradio.com

316 ms

main.css

main.css

47 ms

common.css

common.css

59 ms

site_util.js

site_util.js

83 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

56 ms

nav_move.js

nav_move.js

62 ms

major_promo_rotator.js

major_promo_rotator.js

56 ms

listen.js

listen.js

55 ms

layout.css

layout.css

27 ms

home.css

home.css

45 ms

count.php

count.php

20237 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

36 ms

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39 ms

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rayrichardsonprofile.jpg

40 ms

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mikegallagher.jpg

36 ms

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hermancainprofilepic.jpg

38 ms

johnnyb.jpg

johnnyb.jpg

88 ms

michaelsavage6.jpg

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35 ms

jimbpic2.jpg

jimbpic2.jpg

85 ms

wlobwhite.jpg

wlobwhite.jpg

85 ms

stations1.jpg

stations1.jpg

89 ms

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87 ms

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91 ms

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92 ms

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162 ms

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174 ms

kevincrocker.jpg

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87 ms

advertise.jpg

advertise.jpg

174 ms

fox_logo.jpg

fox_logo.jpg

177 ms

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178 ms

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178 ms

masthead.jpg

masthead.jpg

167 ms

nav.gif

nav.gif

157 ms

nav_div.gif

nav_div.gif

155 ms

content_bg_home.gif

content_bg_home.gif

174 ms

onair_bg.gif

onair_bg.gif

194 ms

home_top_promos.gif

home_top_promos.gif

116 ms

home_promo_bg.gif

home_promo_bg.gif

69 ms

home_promo_hdr.gif

home_promo_hdr.gif

57 ms

home_bot_promos.gif

home_bot_promos.gif

95 ms

side_items.gif

side_items.gif

89 ms

side_bg.gif

side_bg.gif

89 ms

Accessibility Review

wlobradio.com accessibility score

80

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

<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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

wlobradio.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wlobradio.com SEO score

84

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wlobradio.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 Wlobradio.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

wlobradio.com

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