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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

kxan.com

Austin News & Weather | Austin, TX | KXAN Austin

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

kxan.com screenshot

About Website

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

We tell local Austin news & weather stories, and we do what we do to make Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Dripping Springs, Bastrop and the rest of Central Texas a better place to live.

Visit kxan.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Kxan.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 2.6 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

kxan.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value43.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value94,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value125.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kxan.com

48 ms

148 ms

css

81 ms

204 ms

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kxan.com, 17% (28 requests) were made to Lintvkxan.files.wordpress.com and 17% (28 requests) were made to Wx.kxan.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (738 ms) relates to the external source Dropbox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kxan.com main page is 4.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 184.0 kB

  • Original 237.2 kB
  • After minification 228.2 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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 184.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 139.2 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB

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. KXAN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 892.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 465.9 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 892.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. Kxan.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (44%)

Requests Now

158

After Optimization

88

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 158 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KXAN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

kxan.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

<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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

kxan.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

kxan.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kxan.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 Kxan.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

kxan.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of KXAN. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: