Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

kbauthority.com

KB Authority specializes in bathroom sink vanities, shower doors, kitchen faucets and more!

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kbauthority.com page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 4.8 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

kbauthority.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kbauthority.com

211 ms

www.kbauthority.com

184 ms

www.kbauthority.com

113 ms

www.kbauthority.com

930 ms

xm_extra_style.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Kbauthority.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Kbauthority.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (20%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Kbauthority.com main page is 6.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 104.8 kB
  • After minification 80.2 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 24.6 kB, which is 23% 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 90.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 624.1 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Obviously, KB Authority needs image optimization as it can save up to 624.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 456.6 kB

  • Original 649.5 kB
  • After minification 589.7 kB
  • After compression 193.0 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 456.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 211.7 kB

  • Original 244.7 kB
  • After minification 189.0 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Kbauthority.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 211.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (37%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KB Authority. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kbauthority.com accessibility score

82

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

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

kbauthority.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kbauthority.com SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kbauthority.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 Kbauthority.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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