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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

kentuckyconnect.com

Lexington KY Breaking News & Sports | Lexington Herald Leader

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kentuckyconnect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kentuckyconnect.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,750 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kentuckyconnect.com

181 ms

www.kentuckyconnect.com

245 ms

www.kentucky.com

141 ms

kentuckycore.js

122 ms

vendor.bundle-e8bf89b42a8198ff411c.js

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Kentuckyconnect.com, 70% (30 requests) were made to Kentucky.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Mcclatchy-wires.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Mcclatchy-wires.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 910.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Kentuckyconnect.com main page is 2.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 182.6 kB

  • Original 201.9 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 113.2 kB, which is 56% 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 182.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 727.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Obviously, Kentuc KY Connect needs image optimization as it can save up to 727.6 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 51 B

  • Original 834 B
  • After minification 834 B
  • After compression 783 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kentuc KY Connect. 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

kentuckyconnect.com

kentuckyconnect.com

181 ms

www.kentuckyconnect.com

www.kentuckyconnect.com

245 ms

www.kentucky.com

www.kentucky.com

141 ms

kentuckycore.js

kentuckycore.js

122 ms

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vendor.bundle-e8bf89b42a8198ff411c.js

96 ms

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mi-header.bundle-607fd7cfea582dcf340d.js

171 ms

css

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269 ms

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mi-styles.edbcba0a9d4e3d9d95fb.css

169 ms

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169 ms

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598 ms

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213 ms

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233 ms

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231 ms

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226 ms

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255 ms

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256 ms

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248 ms

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242 ms

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328 ms

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820 ms

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799 ms

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942 ms

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937 ms

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1120 ms

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326 ms

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326 ms

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328 ms

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910 ms

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457 ms

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739 ms

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783 ms

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491 ms

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447 ms

Accessibility Review

kentuckyconnect.com accessibility score

78

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Best Practices

kentuckyconnect.com 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

kentuckyconnect.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Kentuckyconnect.com 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 Kentuckyconnect.com 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

kentuckyconnect.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kentuc KY Connect. 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: