Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% 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

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

harvestpublicmedia.org

Harvest Public Media - Homepage | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

825 ms

harvestpublicmedia.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to harvestpublicmedia.org homepage info - get ready to check Harvest Public Media best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about harvestpublicmedia.org

A public media collaboration that reports on food and agriculture in the Midwest, based at KCUR 89.3 - NPR In Kansas City.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harvestpublicmedia.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 2.7 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

harvestpublicmedia.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,010 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

harvestpublicmedia.org

15 ms

harvestpublicmedia

10 ms

harvestpublicmedia

302 ms

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

29 ms

All.min.4b4833d6fd1d7b8e09869a5338764779.gz.js

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Harvestpublicmedia.org, 49% (33 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 (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Npr.brightspotcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.6 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Harvestpublicmedia.org main page is 1.3 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. Images take 531.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 188.4 kB

  • Original 224.9 kB
  • After minification 187.5 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 37.4 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 188.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 531.2 kB
  • After minification 506.4 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. Harvest Public Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 344 B

  • Original 508.7 kB
  • After minification 508.7 kB
  • After compression 508.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 66.1 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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. Harvestpublicmedia.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (40%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harvest Public Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

harvestpublicmedia.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

harvestpublicmedia.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

harvestpublicmedia.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 Harvestpublicmedia.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 Harvestpublicmedia.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 Harvest Public Media. 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: