Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

khke.org

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

424 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Khke.org page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

khke.org performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,440 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

khke.org

105 ms

www.iowapublicradio.org

603 ms

All.min.47ace4826dcc0995509c8da992bf9540.gz.css

35 ms

css2

51 ms

All.min.f87700a209960c597ba5939291eb36a9.gz.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Khke.org, 40% (24 requests) were made to Npr.brightspotcdn.com and 28% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Npr.brightspotcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Khke.org main page is 1.2 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 502.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 162.1 kB

  • Original 195.5 kB
  • After minification 166.0 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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 29.5 kB, which is 15% 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 162.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 502.3 kB
  • After minification 446.1 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. Obviously, Khke needs image optimization as it can save up to 56.2 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 147 B

  • Original 478.3 kB
  • After minification 478.3 kB
  • After compression 478.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 70.5 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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. Khke.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (43%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Khke. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

khke.org accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

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

Best Practices

khke.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

khke.org SEO score

97

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 Khke.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 Khke.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 Khke. 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: