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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kynect.ky.gov

Kynect

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

337 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kynect.ky.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 337 ms and then it took 1.4 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

kynect.ky.gov performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kynect.ky.gov

337 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

100 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.20.min.js

432 ms

jquery.blockUI.js

147 ms

jquery.lightbox_me.js

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Kynect.ky.gov, 2% (1 request) were made to Kychfs.d2.sc.omtrdc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (432 ms) belongs to the original domain Kynect.ky.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 807.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

929.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kynect.ky.gov main page is 1.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 815.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 118.7 kB

  • Original 139.2 kB
  • After minification 110.8 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 28.5 kB, which is 20% 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 118.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 69.5 kB

  • Original 815.2 kB
  • After minification 745.7 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. Kynect Ky images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 523.0 kB

  • Original 671.2 kB
  • After minification 526.4 kB
  • After compression 148.2 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 523.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 96.6 kB

  • Original 111.1 kB
  • After minification 79.6 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Kynect.ky.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (47%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kynect Ky. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kynect.ky.gov

kynect.ky.gov

337 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

100 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.20.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.20.min.js

432 ms

jquery.blockUI.js

jquery.blockUI.js

147 ms

jquery.lightbox_me.js

jquery.lightbox_me.js

120 ms

jquery.maskedinput.js

jquery.maskedinput.js

121 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

147 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

132 ms

CustomClientValidators.js

CustomClientValidators.js

145 ms

jquery.timepicker.js

jquery.timepicker.js

179 ms

ChangeTracker.js

ChangeTracker.js

164 ms

jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js

jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js

179 ms

AJAXHelper.js

AJAXHelper.js

179 ms

jquery.ui.datepicker-es-MX.js

jquery.ui.datepicker-es-MX.js

180 ms

CoreControl.js

CoreControl.js

198 ms

HBECommonUtility.js

HBECommonUtility.js

213 ms

jquery-ui-datepicker-custom.js

jquery-ui-datepicker-custom.js

213 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

212 ms

Site.css

Site.css

315 ms

jquery.timepicker.css

jquery.timepicker.css

229 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

246 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

277 ms

adobe_page_code.js

adobe_page_code.js

244 ms

adobe_custom_tracking.js

adobe_custom_tracking.js

263 ms

ssnmasking.js

ssnmasking.js

279 ms

logo.png

logo.png

81 ms

sort_down_small.png

sort_down_small.png

80 ms

kynect_2.0_SSP_Banner_FinalPrdm.png

kynect_2.0_SSP_Banner_FinalPrdm.png

211 ms

PrimaryButton.png

PrimaryButton.png

60 ms

kynewmobileUpdated.png

kynewmobileUpdated.png

141 ms

Early%20Renewal%20image.png

Early%20Renewal%20image.png

141 ms

familynewPrdm.jpg

familynewPrdm.jpg

209 ms

1095%20Portal_English.jpg

1095%20Portal_English.jpg

102 ms

blue%20envelope.png

blue%20envelope.png

114 ms

Yellow%20Envelope.png

Yellow%20Envelope.png

168 ms

Kynect_SSP_TaxTeaser_v02.png

Kynect_SSP_TaxTeaser_v02.png

181 ms

SecondaryButton.png

SecondaryButton.png

176 ms

arrow_prev.png

arrow_prev.png

175 ms

FacebookIcon.png

FacebookIcon.png

169 ms

TwitterIcon.png

TwitterIcon.png

177 ms

YouTubeIcon.png

YouTubeIcon.png

179 ms

LinkedinIcon.png

LinkedinIcon.png

184 ms

x.png

x.png

202 ms

vegur-webfont.woff

vegur-webfont.woff

244 ms

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s07407240332104

6 ms

Accessibility Review

kynect.ky.gov accessibility score

90

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

[role] values are not valid

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

kynect.ky.gov best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

kynect.ky.gov SEO score

83

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kynect.ky.gov can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Kynect.ky.gov 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

kynect.ky.gov

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kynect Ky. 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: