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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

prairiepublic.org

Prairie Public | Home

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

119 ms

About Website

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Prairie Public offers a window on the world through national, regional, and locally produced television and radio programming.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prairiepublic.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

prairiepublic.org performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,310 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.556

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.prairiepublic.org

1151 ms

cms-navigation.css

68 ms

style.css

99 ms

swfobject.js

72 ms

thickbox.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Prairiepublic.org, 2% (2 requests) were made to T.sharethis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Prairiepublic.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 673.0 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

476.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Prairiepublic.org main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 668.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 32.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 271.8 kB
  • After minification 245.3 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. Prairie Public images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 477.3 kB

  • Original 668.4 kB
  • After minification 611.3 kB
  • After compression 191.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 477.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 136.7 kB

  • Original 165.7 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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. Prairiepublic.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (74%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Prairie Public. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

prairiepublic.org accessibility score

82

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

prairiepublic.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

prairiepublic.org SEO score

73

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Prairiepublic.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Prairiepublic.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 Prairie Public. 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: