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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

kicad.org

KiCad EDA - Schematic Capture & PCB Design Software

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

330 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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About Website

Welcome to kicad.org homepage info - get ready to check Ki Cad best content for Germany right away, or after learning these important things about kicad.org

Open source EDA / electronics CAD software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Use schematic capture, create PCB designs and view them in 3D, all forever free.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kicad.org page load time and found that the first response time was 330 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kicad.org performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kicad.org

330 ms

www.kicad.org

327 ms

kicad-bootstrap.min.7be781eff25a1ab78218ff17cb1f63d6a5d52d1da08c526e2d4b93c61be42770.css

18 ms

kicad-website.min.2d2a2d733f475d61779f90ed2454460492dca829ee93ead9071616019bd115b5.css

30 ms

fund-drive.min.2326ba6c9b99796dd012ba524234a869b5ce55626d60d289330d54740709f9bf.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Kicad.org, 22% (8 requests) were made to Donate.kicad.org and 3% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (688 ms) relates to the external source Donate.kicad.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

882.6 kB

After Optimization

842.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kicad.org main page is 882.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 738.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 34.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 738.6 kB
  • After minification 738.6 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. Ki Cad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 57.7 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 42.9 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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. Kicad.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ki Cad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kicad.org

kicad.org

330 ms

www.kicad.org

www.kicad.org

327 ms

kicad-bootstrap.min.7be781eff25a1ab78218ff17cb1f63d6a5d52d1da08c526e2d4b93c61be42770.css

kicad-bootstrap.min.7be781eff25a1ab78218ff17cb1f63d6a5d52d1da08c526e2d4b93c61be42770.css

18 ms

kicad-website.min.2d2a2d733f475d61779f90ed2454460492dca829ee93ead9071616019bd115b5.css

kicad-website.min.2d2a2d733f475d61779f90ed2454460492dca829ee93ead9071616019bd115b5.css

30 ms

fund-drive.min.2326ba6c9b99796dd012ba524234a869b5ce55626d60d289330d54740709f9bf.css

fund-drive.min.2326ba6c9b99796dd012ba524234a869b5ce55626d60d289330d54740709f9bf.css

31 ms

all.min.876d023d9d10c97941b80c3b03e2a5b94631ff7a4af9cee5604a6a2d39718d84.css

all.min.876d023d9d10c97941b80c3b03e2a5b94631ff7a4af9cee5604a6a2d39718d84.css

34 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.decb4e8fdab5cb7b76ec6470b6fb73d30c7ee8e248d7486f49007f3c525b7acb.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.decb4e8fdab5cb7b76ec6470b6fb73d30c7ee8e248d7486f49007f3c525b7acb.js

48 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.aa53dcbbe2a4db4b1ba3e37ec4e970f60419f6dc3c0f36fe23faa8ed1c7c4b0e.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.aa53dcbbe2a4db4b1ba3e37ec4e970f60419f6dc3c0f36fe23faa8ed1c7c4b0e.js

30 ms

kicad.min.da3bfcafef03ed6179e956327ae055e69418216c7f4bcdcb2a27eba4d739342c.js

kicad.min.da3bfcafef03ed6179e956327ae055e69418216c7f4bcdcb2a27eba4d739342c.js

27 ms

fund-drive.min.de49577720c0726b3de814ef0c8812adf6a3c9f96e1ff237bc03b74f9ffa3c07.js

fund-drive.min.de49577720c0726b3de814ef0c8812adf6a3c9f96e1ff237bc03b74f9ffa3c07.js

47 ms

donate.kicad.org

donate.kicad.org

688 ms

kicad_logo_small.png

kicad_logo_small.png

49 ms

kicad_eeschema_thumb.png

kicad_eeschema_thumb.png

48 ms

kicad_pcbnew_thumb.png

kicad_pcbnew_thumb.png

49 ms

kicad_3dviewer_thumb.png

kicad_3dviewer_thumb.png

50 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

26 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

94 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

29 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

38 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

98 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

164 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

155 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

140 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

142 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

104 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

108 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

122 ms

site-min.css

site-min.css

376 ms

normalize-min.css

normalize-min.css

285 ms

style-min.css

style-min.css

291 ms

kicad_shirt_locked.jpg

kicad_shirt_locked.jpg

463 ms

kicad_shirt.jpg

kicad_shirt.jpg

463 ms

jquery-3.6.0.slim.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.slim.min.js

16 ms

29 ms

donate-min.js

donate-min.js

373 ms

loveKiCadUnlock.png

loveKiCadUnlock.png

373 ms

Accessibility Review

kicad.org accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

kicad.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

SEO Factors

kicad.org SEO score

92

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

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 Kicad.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 Kicad.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

kicad.org

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