Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

knightdigitalmediacenter.org

Knight Digital Media Center | Dedicated to helping organizations and community leaders develop digital news and information strategies for the 21st Ce...

Page Load Speed

883 ms in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

469 ms

Page Rendered

375 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Knightdigitalmediacenter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 844 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

knightdigitalmediacenter.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.236

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

knightdigitalmediacenter.org

39 ms

www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org

38 ms

css_ae6560cf04709c2a548ba1473610633d.css

8 ms

js_1fc4f49b1dfa32760bbde5bf418ab369.js

39 ms

tiny_mce.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Knightdigitalmediacenter.org, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (147 ms) belongs to the original domain Knightdigitalmediacenter.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 605.3 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Knightdigitalmediacenter.org 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 879.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 42.6 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 7.1 kB, which is 14% 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 37.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 879.1 kB
  • After minification 833.8 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. Knight Digital Media Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 389.6 kB

  • Original 543.8 kB
  • After minification 475.3 kB
  • After compression 154.2 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 389.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 133.2 kB

  • Original 160.5 kB
  • After minification 156.7 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. Knightdigitalmediacenter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (17%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Knight Digital Media Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

knightdigitalmediacenter.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

knightdigitalmediacenter.org best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

knightdigitalmediacenter.org SEO score

64

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Knightdigitalmediacenter.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Knightdigitalmediacenter.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 Knight Digital Media Center. 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: