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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

theiowachannel.com

Des Moines IA News and Weather - Iowa News - KCCI 8 News

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

704 ms

Page Rendered

508 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theiowachannel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theiowachannel.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,860 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.498

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theiowachannel.com

29 ms

www.kcci.com

20 ms

script.js

26 ms

gpt.js

56 ms

client

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theiowachannel.com, 29% (13 requests) were made to Assets.htvapps.com and 16% (7 requests) were made to Kubrick.htvapps.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (388 ms) relates to the external source Tm.hdmtools.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 596.1 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

739.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theiowachannel.com main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 822.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 230.7 kB

  • Original 276.1 kB
  • After minification 257.4 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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 230.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 236.5 kB
  • After minification 195.6 kB

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. Obviously, The Iowa Channel needs image optimization as it can save up to 40.9 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 324.6 kB

  • Original 822.5 kB
  • After minification 822.5 kB
  • After compression 497.9 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 324.6 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (40%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Iowa Channel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theiowachannel.com

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29 ms

www.kcci.com

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20 ms

script.js

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26 ms

gpt.js

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56 ms

client

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96 ms

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84 ms

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52 ms

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87 ms

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216 ms

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277 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

388 ms

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269 ms

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230 ms

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5 ms

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209 ms

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352 ms

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182 ms

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74 ms

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221 ms

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68 ms

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68 ms

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205 ms

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178 ms

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169 ms

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88 ms

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122 ms

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skeleton.gif

125 ms

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105 ms

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original.png

109 ms

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59 ms

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27 ms

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60 ms

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24 ms

Accessibility Review

theiowachannel.com accessibility score

96

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

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>).

Best Practices

theiowachannel.com 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

theiowachannel.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

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 Theiowachannel.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 Theiowachannel.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

theiowachannel.com

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