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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

mpt.org

Maryland Public Television: MPT

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

850 ms

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About Website

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

Maryland Public Television (MPT) is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station serving the state of Maryland and surrounding areas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mpt.org page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mpt.org performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,280 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.177

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mpt.org

33 ms

www.mpt.org

18 ms

www.mpt.org

162 ms

bootstrap.css

62 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Mpt.org, 42% (45 requests) were made to Image.pbs.org and 24% (25 requests) were made to Proweb.myersinfosys.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Image.pbs.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 630.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mpt.org main page is 6.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 249.1 kB

  • Original 300.1 kB
  • After minification 288.1 kB
  • After compression 51.0 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 249.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 337.0 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. MPT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 656.7 kB
  • After minification 656.7 kB
  • After compression 646.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 108.3 kB
  • After minification 107.9 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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. Mpt.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.1 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (40%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MPT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mpt.org

mpt.org

33 ms

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18 ms

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162 ms

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Accessibility Review

mpt.org accessibility score

92

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

mpt.org best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mpt.org SEO score

90

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 Mpt.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 Mpt.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

mpt.org

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