Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kera.org

KERA - PBS, NPR and more for North Texas and the world

Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

4.6 sec

Resources Loaded

8.1 sec

Page Rendered

335 ms

kera.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing KERA content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kera.org

PBS and NPR for North Texas, the fourth-largest population area in the country. Each week, two million people listen to and watch programming on KERA TV, KERA

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kera.org page load time and found that the first response time was 4.6 sec and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kera.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.kera.org

4617 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

33 ms

style.css

59 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

45 ms

style.min.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Kera.org, 5% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Kera.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Kera.org main page is 2.5 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. 80% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 103.2 kB

  • Original 131.2 kB
  • After minification 122.1 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 103.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 76.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. KERA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 115.0 kB

  • Original 853.8 kB
  • After minification 853.7 kB
  • After compression 738.8 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 115.0 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 46.6 kB

  • Original 140.5 kB
  • After minification 127.9 kB
  • After compression 93.9 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. Kera.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.6 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (68%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KERA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kera.org accessibility score

87

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.

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

Best Practices

kera.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

kera.org SEO score

83

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

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