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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

kcet.org

PBS SoCal — Your Home for PBS in Southern California

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

957 ms

Page Rendered

4.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kcet content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kcet.org

PBS SoCal is the home to PBS for Greater Los Angeles Area and Southern California. We deliver the full schedule of PBS Programs, plus local programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kcet.org page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kcet.org performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,880 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.501

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pbssocal.org

129 ms

All.min.27930447eefb6140c82c23941bb1611d.gz.css

32 ms

All.min.0d731fedff1bf5ddf81b329c989f8611.gz.js

208 ms

All.min.e8e968e242610bdc25033f03eb96a6c6.gz.js

203 ms

gpt.js

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Kcet.org, 7% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 4% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) relates to the external source Kcet.brightspotcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 883.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kcet.org main page is 6.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 808.0 kB

  • Original 950.5 kB
  • After minification 842.9 kB
  • After compression 142.6 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 107.6 kB, which is 11% 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 808.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Kcet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 74.4 kB

  • Original 624.7 kB
  • After minification 624.7 kB
  • After compression 550.3 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 74.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 106.0 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 105.0 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. Kcet.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (24%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kcet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.pbssocal.org

www.pbssocal.org

129 ms

All.min.27930447eefb6140c82c23941bb1611d.gz.css

All.min.27930447eefb6140c82c23941bb1611d.gz.css

32 ms

All.min.0d731fedff1bf5ddf81b329c989f8611.gz.js

All.min.0d731fedff1bf5ddf81b329c989f8611.gz.js

208 ms

All.min.e8e968e242610bdc25033f03eb96a6c6.gz.js

All.min.e8e968e242610bdc25033f03eb96a6c6.gz.js

203 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

317 ms

bsp-analytics.min.3d492319d8b084de04ab3a208c32f0b5.gz.js

bsp-analytics.min.3d492319d8b084de04ab3a208c32f0b5.gz.js

193 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

325 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

247 ms

script.js

script.js

284 ms

pbs-socal-logo-164.svg

pbs-socal-logo-164.svg

163 ms

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pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

41 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

12 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

47 ms

dc99a187-041e-496f-a837-d013f7f43c8e.json

dc99a187-041e-496f-a837-d013f7f43c8e.json

27 ms

location

location

34 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

26 ms

Accessibility Review

kcet.org accessibility score

88

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

kcet.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kcet.org SEO score

85

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 Kcet.org 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 Kcet.org 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

kcet.org

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