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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202641 issues · 89 checks

This review found 41 issues worth fixing on wyff4.com, 16 of them high impact, across 89 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.6 s2.1 sApr 18Oct 32.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20262.5 s
Apr 25, 20262.5 s
May 2, 20262.5 s
May 9, 20262.5 s
May 16, 20262.5 s
May 23, 20262.4 s
May 30, 20262.4 s
Jun 6, 20262.4 s
Jun 13, 20262.4 s
Jun 20, 20262.4 s
Jun 27, 20262.4 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.4 s
Jul 18, 20262.4 s
Jul 25, 20262.4 s
Aug 1, 20262.4 s
Aug 8, 20262.3 s
Aug 15, 20262.3 s
Aug 22, 20262.2 s
Aug 29, 20262.2 s
Sep 5, 20262.2 s
Sep 12, 20262.2 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
182 ms145 msApr 18Oct 3172 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 2026164 ms
Apr 25, 2026163 ms
May 2, 2026161 ms
May 9, 2026160 ms
May 16, 2026155 ms
May 23, 2026154 ms
May 30, 2026153 ms
Jun 6, 2026151 ms
Jun 13, 2026152 ms
Jun 20, 2026151 ms
Jun 27, 2026149 ms
Jul 4, 2026152 ms
Jul 11, 2026154 ms
Jul 18, 2026154 ms
Jul 25, 2026159 ms
Aug 1, 2026163 ms
Aug 8, 2026168 ms
Aug 15, 2026177 ms
Aug 22, 2026178 ms
Aug 29, 2026175 ms
Sep 5, 2026175 ms
Sep 12, 2026175 ms
Sep 19, 2026176 ms
Sep 26, 2026176 ms
Oct 3, 2026172 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of wyff4.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. wyff4.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. wyff4.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. wyff4.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. wyff4.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. wyff4.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. wyff4.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. wyff4.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. wyff4.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

11 to fix44
  • Improve image delivery

    1.6 s · 623 KiB

    8 images could be 623 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.1 s · 1,010 KiB

    36 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1,010 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 44

    44/100

    Your mobile performance score is 44 (desktop: 51). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 4.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.8 MB

    About 1.8 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (weather.com, Other Google APIs/SDKs and Google/Doubleclick Ads and others), adding 3.3 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

  • weather.com adds 490 ms

    490 ms

    weather.com costs a phone 490 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 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.

  • 19 long tasks on the main thread

    19 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 253 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Other Google APIs/SDKs adds 189 ms

    189 ms

    Other Google APIs/SDKs costs a phone 189 ms of main-thread work and 545 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.

  • htvapps.com adds 89 ms

    89 ms

    htvapps.com costs a phone 89 ms of main-thread work and 951 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.

  • Google/Doubleclick Ads adds 139 ms

    139 ms

    Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 139 ms of main-thread work and 311 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    150 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    46 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 46 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Chained critical requests

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

  • Forced reflow

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

  • Minify JavaScript

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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  • Server response: 13 ms

    13 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Time to Interactive: 35.8 s

    35.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 35.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.2 s

    9.2 s

    Your largest element takes 9.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Speed Index: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.5 s

    3.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 675 ms

    675 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 675 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 20 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 164 ms to 172 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -8%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 152 ms

    152 ms

    Real visitors wait 152 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.04

    0.04

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.04 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 273 ms

    273 ms

    Real visitors wait 273 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.009

    0.009

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.009, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix60
  • Page weight: 5.6 MB in 229 requests

    5.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.6 MB in 229 requests on a phone: scripts 3.3 MB (64), images 1.1 MB (82) and fonts 627 KiB (18). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images far larger than shown

    206 KiB

    3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 7695c4c8-2595-4430-b7c3-77037f4ea35f.jpg at 1,280 px wide, shown at 120 px. Resized copies would save about 206 KiB.

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (171 KiB) 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.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (198 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.58 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.58 g of CO₂e: 189.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8491
  • 2 buttons without a name

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

  • Links look like plain text

    1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

  • 5 images without alt text

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

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)

    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.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 3 links without text

    3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (6 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (7 elements).

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  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 7 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 7793
  • Meta description is long (178 characters)

    Your meta description is 178 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 1 link with vague text

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

  • 108 internal links, 15 external

    The homepage links to 108 pages on wyff4.com and 15 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “WYFF News 4 and Weather”.

  • Title: 44 characters

    Your title is a healthy 44 characters: “Greenville SC News and Weather - WYFF News 4”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.wyff4.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: ItemList.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.wyff4.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

2 to fix53
  • robots.txt blocks 2 AI answer engine crawlers

    2 of 6

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

  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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.

  • Opted out of AI training for 5 crawlers

    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.

1 checks passed
  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (833 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix85
  • 4 pages without a meta description

    /nowcast, /subscribe, /traffic and /weather/radar have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /privacy-notice, whose canonical is /article/privacy-notice/63785056. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 2 pages without an H1

    /privacy-notice and /terms-of-use have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 72 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 5083
  • 11 small tap targets

    11 of 34 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 third-party cookies

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

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“The Topics API is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.”).

  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

    6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error fetching nowcast status from https://nowcast.htvapps.com/wyff/status AbortError: [Fetch]: https://nowcast.htvapps…”.

  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

  • Browser-reported issues

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

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix40
  • No call to action on the first screen

    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 social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

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

  • No direct contact details

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

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No risk reducer

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

  • About 821 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 821 words of visible text.

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  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Download” and “Contact Us”.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager and The Trade Desk (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Ketch) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 20 cookies set on arrival

    20

    Opening the homepage sets 20 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 66 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 66 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Ketch

    A consent management tool (Ketch) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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