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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

helpcenter.kqed.org

KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

630 ms

helpcenter.kqed.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helpcenter.kqed.org page load time and found that the first response time was 132 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

helpcenter.kqed.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,410 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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132 ms

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604 ms

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355 ms

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230 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Helpcenter.kqed.org, 47% (55 requests) were made to Cdn.kqed.org and 30% (35 requests) were made to Kqed.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (680 ms) relates to the external source Kqed.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (28%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Helpcenter.kqed.org main page is 5.0 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. 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 933.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 185.4 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. 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 933.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 138.6 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Helpcenter KQED images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 336.9 kB

  • Original 510.2 kB
  • After minification 506.6 kB
  • After compression 173.4 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 336.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (41%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helpcenter KQED. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

helpcenter.kqed.org accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

helpcenter.kqed.org best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

helpcenter.kqed.org SEO score

86

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

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

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 Helpcenter.kqed.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 Helpcenter.kqed.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

helpcenter.kqed.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Helpcenter KQED. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: