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giving.kqed.org

KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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About Website

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KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Giving.kqed.org page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

giving.kqed.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

donation

172 ms

global.css

9 ms

donation.css

59 ms

modernizr.js

58 ms

jquery.js

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Giving.kqed.org, 23% (12 requests) were made to T.wepay.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Ww2.kqed.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) relates to the external source C394391.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 593.9 kB (67%)

Content Size

880.0 kB

After Optimization

286.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Giving.kqed.org main page is 880.0 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. Javascripts take 590.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 67.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 26.6 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. Obviously, Giving KQED needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 377.3 kB

  • Original 590.3 kB
  • After minification 575.7 kB
  • After compression 213.0 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 377.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 139.1 kB

  • Original 164.3 kB
  • After minification 164.1 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Giving.kqed.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (57%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Giving KQED. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

giving.kqed.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Giving.kqed.org 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 Giving.kqed.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 data is detected on the main page of Giving KQED. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: