Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

legacy.kcrw.com

KCRW 89.9FM | Music, NPR News, Culture Los Angeles | KCRW

Page Load Speed

11.2 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

5.8 sec

legacy.kcrw.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Legacy.kcrw.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 11.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

legacy.kcrw.com performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,160 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.736

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

legacy.kcrw.com

125 ms

www.kcrw.com

124 ms

www.kcrw.com

326 ms

base-cachekey-5340fb7fe1433ddb693c3de897f266ea.css

64 ms

resourceplone.formwidget.geolocationlibs-cachekey-6e68105f944db496e2323bad441b03a1.css

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 216 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Legacy.kcrw.com, 61% (132 requests) were made to Kcrw.com and 5% (10 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Kcrw.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 330.3 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Legacy.kcrw.com main page is 2.3 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. 80% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 197.1 kB

  • Original 235.6 kB
  • After minification 203.0 kB
  • After compression 38.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 32.6 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 197.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Legacy KCRW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 573.2 kB
  • After minification 569.5 kB
  • After compression 501.4 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 71.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 140.4 kB
  • After minification 140.4 kB
  • After compression 118.1 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. Legacy.kcrw.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (39%)

Requests Now

169

After Optimization

103

The browser has sent 169 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Legacy KCRW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

legacy.kcrw.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

legacy.kcrw.com best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

legacy.kcrw.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

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 Legacy.kcrw.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 Legacy.kcrw.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 Legacy KCRW. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: