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kansas.watchdog.org

Kansas Watchdog.org

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

374 ms

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About Website

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Kansas Watchdog.org is an investigative news site covering politics & spotlighting waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars in Topeka & throughout the state.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kansas.watchdog.org page load time and found that the first response time was 22 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

kansas.watchdog.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

kansas.watchdog.org

22 ms

104 ms

197 ms

DM_redirect.js

41 ms

style.css

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 165 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kansas.watchdog.org, 22% (37 requests) were made to Watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 12% (19 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) relates to the external source Watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 452.0 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

562.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Kansas.watchdog.org main page is 1.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 421.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 60.6 kB

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 67.1 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 8.0 kB, which is 11% 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 60.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 347.4 kB
  • After minification 313.9 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 Watchdog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 215.3 kB

  • Original 421.7 kB
  • After minification 402.1 kB
  • After compression 206.4 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 215.3 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 142.5 kB

  • Original 170.6 kB
  • After minification 145.6 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. Kansas.watchdog.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (60%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kansas Watchdog. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Kansas.watchdog.org 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 Kansas.watchdog.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 Kansas Watchdog. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: