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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

kut.org

KUT Homepage | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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News and information for Austin and Central Texas from KUT, Austin's NPR Station

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kut.org page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kut.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,640 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kut.org

37 ms

www.kut.org

11 ms

www.kut.org

610 ms

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

36 ms

All.min.4b4833d6fd1d7b8e09869a5338764779.gz.js

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Kut.org, 53% (39 requests) were made to Npr.brightspotcdn.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (619 ms) relates to the external source Npr.brightspotcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 382.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kut.org main page is 3.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 215.8 kB

  • Original 255.6 kB
  • After minification 212.8 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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 42.8 kB, which is 17% 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 215.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 165.0 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. KUT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 252 B

  • Original 382.3 kB
  • After minification 382.3 kB
  • After compression 382.1 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 66.5 kB
  • After minification 66.5 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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. Kut.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (30%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KUT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

kut.org accessibility score

92

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kut.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

kut.org SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Kut.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 Kut.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 KUT. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: