Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ktvu.com

KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

ktvu.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ktvu.com homepage info - get ready to check KTVU best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about ktvu.com

Local and breaking news reports from around the Bay Area, brought to you by KTVU FOX 2, serving San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and the entire Bay Area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ktvu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ktvu.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value33.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value67.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value50.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value101.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ktvu.com

2273 ms

gtm.js

125 ms

scorestrip-external.css

123 ms

css

173 ms

home.rs.css

231 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Ktvu.com, 61% (94 requests) were made to Images.foxtv.com and 12% (18 requests) were made to Static.foxtv.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Ktvu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (21%)

Content Size

13.8 MB

After Optimization

11.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ktvu.com main page is 13.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 7.7 MB
  • After compression 5.3 MB

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 2.4 MB or 31% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. KTVU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 394.4 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 1.9 MB

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 394.4 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

  • Original 88.8 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Ktvu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (32%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

101

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KTVU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ktvu.com accessibility score

72

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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.

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.

SEO Factors

ktvu.com 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Ktvu.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 Ktvu.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

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