Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

kosu.org

KOSU: Your Trusted Source of News & Music From Oklahoma & NPR | KOSU

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

kosu.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing KOSU content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kosu.org

Oklahoma's NPR news station features local news, indie music from The Spy, and NPR programs such as Morning Edition, Fresh Air, This American Life and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kosu.org page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kosu.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,240 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kosu.org

191 ms

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22 ms

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31 ms

css_XHTm2cMU6sD6pzlNwtS19lgDRK8GjAz14nQaxKhle30.css

83 ms

css_uY1_bHNTrAu2UuUwumZ6AuPc2Egu5fV5FiJ2-fv7ySk.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Kosu.org, 41% (29 requests) were made to Mediad.publicbroadcasting.net and 13% (9 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Mediad.publicbroadcasting.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 989.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Kosu.org main page is 2.4 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 148.9 kB

  • Original 196.5 kB
  • After minification 191.5 kB
  • After compression 47.7 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 148.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. KOSU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 525.3 kB

  • Original 731.2 kB
  • After minification 615.6 kB
  • After compression 205.8 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 525.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 261.7 kB

  • Original 305.3 kB
  • After minification 300.5 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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. Kosu.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (51%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KOSU. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kosu.org accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

kosu.org 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

kosu.org SEO score

91

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

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 Kosu.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 Kosu.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 KOSU. 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: