Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

thekingsherald.com

The Kings Herald - Independent Sacramento Kings Coverage

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

404 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thekingsherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 4.7 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

thekingsherald.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,640 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.198

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kingsherald.com

3022 ms

wpd-mycread.css

23 ms

main.min.css

22 ms

app.min.css

33 ms

pagenavi-css.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thekingsherald.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Kingsherald.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

868.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Thekingsherald.com main page is 1.2 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 486.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 202.3 kB

  • Original 241.4 kB
  • After minification 241.3 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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 202.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 376.4 kB
  • After minification 376.4 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. The Kings Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 97.6 kB

  • Original 486.2 kB
  • After minification 481.7 kB
  • After compression 388.6 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 97.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 67.7 kB
  • After minification 65.7 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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. Thekingsherald.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 87 (80%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Kings Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thekingsherald.com accessibility score

67

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

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.

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.

Best Practices

thekingsherald.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thekingsherald.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thekingsherald.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 Thekingsherald.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 The Kings Herald. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: