Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

static.khou.com

Houston's Leading Local News: Weather, Traffic, Sports and more | Houston, Texas | khou.com

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

644 ms

Page Rendered

829 ms

static.khou.com screenshot

About Website

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Local News and Information for Houston, Texas and surrounding areas. KHOU.com is the official website for KHOU-TV, your trusted source for breaking news, weather and sports in Houston, TX. KHOU.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Static.khou.com page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

static.khou.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

static.khou.com

132 ms

www.khou.com

154 ms

otSDKStub.js

32 ms

otCCPAiab.js

40 ms

api.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Static.khou.com, 62% (48 requests) were made to Media.khou.com and 26% (20 requests) were made to Khou.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (231 ms) relates to the external source Khou.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (29%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Static.khou.com main page is 3.8 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. 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 285.9 kB

  • Original 329.8 kB
  • After minification 286.0 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 43.8 kB, which is 13% 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 285.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 106.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Static Khou images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 508.5 kB

  • Original 848.1 kB
  • After minification 848.1 kB
  • After compression 339.6 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 508.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 205.0 kB

  • Original 235.0 kB
  • After minification 234.6 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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. Static.khou.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 205.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (47%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Static Khou. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

static.khou.com accessibility score

73

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 do not match their roles

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

static.khou.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

static.khou.com SEO score

68

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 Static.khou.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 Static.khou.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 description is not detected on the main page of Static Khou. 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: