abc7ny.com website review

90 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (16.1 MB).

About 2.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.8 s faster on a phone.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.9 s.

A phone's processor spends 14.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 9.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 1.3 s of main-thread work and 951 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

disney.com costs a phone 1.1 s of main-thread work and 1.9 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Your mobile performance score is 30 (desktop: 40). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

32 images could be 10.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, disney.com and abcotvs.net and others), adding 5.8 MB and 4.2 s of main-thread time.

abcotvs.net costs a phone 798 ms of main-thread work and 1.8 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

About 168 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Google CDN costs a phone 495 ms of main-thread work and 730 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 347 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

espn.com costs a phone 254 ms of main-thread work and 351 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

The page has 2,618 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Polyfills for old browsers add 43 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Your largest element takes 49.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Visually, the page fills in at 23.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 89.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.9 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 3.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 212 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

28 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 239 ms to 237 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 22.2 MB in 509 requests on a phone: images 15.1 MB (78), scripts 5.6 MB (225) and other files 1,009 KiB (185). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images weigh 2.2 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 14378337_2024Stock_24-7_STREAM_ABC7_NEW_YORK_1280x720.png at 1,280 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 514 KiB.

40 images (6.7 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

35 images further down the page (5.1 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 6.29 g of CO₂e: 754.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 25 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

6 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

6 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

4 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 55 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Users should be able to zoom and scale the text up to 500%: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (23 elements).

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Structured data found (Organization, WebPage and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: missing name”.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 179 pages on abc7ny.com and 14 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://abc7ny.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://abc7ny.com/nyc-weather-forecast-7-day-temperatures/27410, whose canonical is https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-weather-forecast-7-day-temperatures/27410. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://abc7ny.com/new-york, https://abc7ny.com/new-jersey, https://abc7ny.com/long-island, https://abc7ny.com/northern-suburbs, https://abc7ny.com/connecticut and https://abc7ny.com/vote2026 and 1 other have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 108 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

14 of 44 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

3 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 1,177 words of visible text.

Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.