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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

kansascitypost.com

Kansas City Post | Kansas City, Ks News Agency

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

584 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kansascitypost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kansascitypost.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.357

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kansascitypost.com

47 ms

www.kansascitypost.com

38 ms

foundation.min.css

44 ms

white_style.css

75 ms

jquery.min.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Kansascitypost.com, 33% (20 requests) were made to Static.midwestradionetwork.com and 20% (12 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (634 ms) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kansascitypost.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. 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 976.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 64.9 kB

  • Original 89.8 kB
  • After minification 78.0 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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 11.8 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 64.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 976.1 kB
  • After minification 953.6 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. Kansas City Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 119.0 kB
  • After minification 119.0 kB
  • After compression 116.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 755 B

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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. Kansascitypost.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (24%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kansas City Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kansascitypost.com

kansascitypost.com

47 ms

www.kansascitypost.com

www.kansascitypost.com

38 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

44 ms

white_style.css

white_style.css

75 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

43 ms

app.js

app.js

66 ms

nmedianet.js

nmedianet.js

38 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

58 ms

stick.js

stick.js

107 ms

css

css

32 ms

css

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59 ms

css

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57 ms

white_wrap.png

white_wrap.png

237 ms

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255 ms

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440 ms

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568 ms

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438 ms

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235 ms

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99 ms

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97 ms

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49 ms

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48 ms

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48 ms

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71 ms

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65 ms

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61 ms

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icon_twitter.png

60 ms

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65 ms

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60 ms

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100 ms

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98 ms

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97 ms

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99 ms

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96 ms

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98 ms

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202 ms

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flping.php

356 ms

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41 ms

settings

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634 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

110 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

134 ms

base.js

base.js

170 ms

Accessibility Review

kansascitypost.com accessibility score

54

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

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

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.

SEO Factors

kansascitypost.com SEO score

77

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

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 Kansascitypost.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 Kansascitypost.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

kansascitypost.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kansas City Post. 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: