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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

cptv.org

Connecticut Public | Media for the curious | Connecticut Public

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

928 ms

Page Rendered

936 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cptv.org page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cptv.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,450 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cptv.org

51 ms

cptv.org

38 ms

www.ctpublic.org

30 ms

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

40 ms

css2

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Cptv.org, 65% (51 requests) were made to Npr.brightspotcdn.com and 15% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (472 ms) relates to the external source Npr.brightspotcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 350.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cptv.org main page is 2.2 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. 75% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 347.0 kB

  • Original 399.8 kB
  • After minification 321.9 kB
  • After compression 52.7 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 77.8 kB, which is 19% 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 347.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Cptv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 465.2 kB
  • After minification 465.2 kB
  • After compression 465.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 68.2 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. Cptv.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (20%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cptv. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cptv.org accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

cptv.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cptv.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Cptv.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 Cptv.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 description is not detected on the main page of Cptv. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: