Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

kansascitypost.com

Kansas City Post | Kansas City, Ks News Agency

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

701 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kansascitypost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kansascitypost.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,470 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.112

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kansascitypost.com

61 ms

www.kansascitypost.com

119 ms

style_green.css

91 ms

jquery-ui.css

77 ms

jquery.min.js

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Kansascitypost.com, 16% (14 requests) were made to Contextual.media.net and 13% (12 requests) were made to Qsearch.media.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (322 ms) relates to the external source Contextual.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 822.8 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

501.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Kansascitypost.com main page is 1.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 966.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 65.9 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 10.3 kB, which is 16% 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 53.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 218.3 kB
  • After minification 196.9 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. Kansas City Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 687.1 kB

  • Original 966.7 kB
  • After minification 955.2 kB
  • After compression 279.6 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 687.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 72.8 kB
  • After minification 62.0 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. Kansascitypost.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (52%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kansas City Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kansascitypost.com accessibility score

54

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

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

kansascitypost.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

kansascitypost.com SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kansascitypost.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Kansascitypost.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 Kansas City Post. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: