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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

kmbc.com

Kansas City News, Weather and Sports - Missouri News - KMBC Channel 9

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

28 ms

Resources Loaded

855 ms

Page Rendered

522 ms

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About Website

Visit kmbc.com now to see the best up-to-date KMBC content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kmbc.com

Get the latest Kansas City news, sports and weather from KMBC. With the best local coverage and the top Missouri news stories, you can stay in the know.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kmbc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 28 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kmbc.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.kmbc.com

28 ms

script.js

35 ms

gpt.js

270 ms

prebid.js

135 ms

main.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kmbc.com, 29% (14 requests) were made to Assets.htvapps.com and 19% (9 requests) were made to Kubrick.htvapps.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (443 ms) relates to the external source Tm.hdmtools.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 675.2 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

953.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Kmbc.com main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 869.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 230.4 kB

  • Original 275.0 kB
  • After minification 256.6 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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 230.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 62.5 kB

  • Original 484.0 kB
  • After minification 421.5 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, KMBC needs image optimization as it can save up to 62.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 382.3 kB

  • Original 869.3 kB
  • After minification 869.3 kB
  • After compression 487.0 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 382.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KMBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.kmbc.com

www.kmbc.com

28 ms

script.js

script.js

35 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

270 ms

prebid.js

prebid.js

135 ms

main.js

main.js

31 ms

Main.374e9bb.js

Main.374e9bb.js

134 ms

cs

cs

225 ms

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d795c4557660dcece36dc1eb0b7b1a702fc0.js

368 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

443 ms

logo.png

logo.png

341 ms

prod_amnews_iframe_section_braze.html

prod_amnews_iframe_section_braze.html

393 ms

unknown_sm.599fcc7.jpg

unknown_sm.599fcc7.jpg

154 ms

default.c14eb92.css

default.c14eb92.css

108 ms

braze.no-amd.min.js

braze.no-amd.min.js

350 ms

pip_prod.json

pip_prod.json

115 ms

fonts-deferred.0da0b82.css

fonts-deferred.0da0b82.css

141 ms

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342 ms

64154

64154

333 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

108 ms

144

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101 ms

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285 ms

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88 ms

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104 ms

author_avatar.png

author_avatar.png

252 ms

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104 ms

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293 ms

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293 ms

kmbc.png

kmbc.png

251 ms

kmbc.png

kmbc.png

283 ms

IconFont.8f5f317.woff

IconFont.8f5f317.woff

87 ms

fontawesome.3e829d6.woff

fontawesome.3e829d6.woff

86 ms

skeleton.gif

skeleton.gif

295 ms

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172 ms

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173 ms

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173 ms

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213 ms

css

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270 ms

original.png

original.png

257 ms

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185 ms

serverComponent.php

serverComponent.php

109 ms

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42 ms

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21 ms

LB-Zone-2

LB-Zone-2

30 ms

bafa37b8992be010898976bd2d4beea2.js

bafa37b8992be010898976bd2d4beea2.js

9 ms

138e1fea3145480baefd08f4d5b4165c.js

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17 ms

cs

cs

26 ms

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17 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

kmbc.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

kmbc.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kmbc.com SEO score

84

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

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

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 Kmbc.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 Kmbc.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

kmbc.com

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