Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

kmtv.co.uk

KMTV - Delivering news, sport and entertainment across Kent

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

459 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

412 ms

kmtv.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit kmtv.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date KMTV content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kmtv.co.uk

The county’s first dedicated television channel. Delivering news, sport and entertainment 24/7 across Maidstone, Medway and surrounding areas on Freeview and Virgin Media.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kmtv.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 459 ms and then it took 6.1 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

kmtv.co.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value32,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.259

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kmtv.co.uk

459 ms

kmtv

157 ms

kmtv

387 ms

332 ms

bundle-v6703855.css

689 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kmtv.co.uk, 39% (24 requests) were made to Kentonline.co.uk and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Kentonline.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Kmtv.co.uk 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 26.2 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 19.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 63.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 989.2 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. KMTV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 158.8 kB
  • After minification 158.8 kB
  • After compression 71.6 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 87.2 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 69 B

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Kmtv.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (44%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KMTV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kmtv.co.uk accessibility score

78

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

kmtv.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

kmtv.co.uk SEO score

73

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Kmtv.co.uk 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 Kmtv.co.uk 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 KMTV. 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: