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Report Summary

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value45.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value50.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value36,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value103.0 s

0/100

10%

katc.com

8 ms

www.katc.com

35 ms

fontawesome.css

70 ms

brands.css

68 ms

solid.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Katc.com, 54% (52 requests) were made to Ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com and 11% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (470 ms) relates to the external source Ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com.

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Katc.com main page is 7.5 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 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 299.4 kB

Original 379.2 kB
After minification 344.6 kB
After compression 79.8 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 299.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 364.4 kB

Original 5.1 MB
After minification 4.7 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. Katc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.8 MB
After compression 793.6 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 1.1 MB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

Original 167.3 kB
After minification 141.7 kB
After compression 52.2 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. Katc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Katc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Katc.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 Katc.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

katc.com

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

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Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)