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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kcrw.co

KCRW 89.9FM | Music, NPR News, Culture Los Angeles | KCRW

Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

5.8 sec

kcrw.co screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing KCRW content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kcrw.co

KCRW creates & curates music discovery, NPR news, cultural exploration and informed public affairs. From Los Angeles to around the world, KCRW.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kcrw.co page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 12.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kcrw.co performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.kcrw.com

127 ms

www.kcrw.com

386 ms

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266 ms

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291 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Kcrw.co, 5% (9 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Synchroscript.deliveryengine.adswizz.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Kcrw.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kcrw.co main page is 4.7 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. 85% 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 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 278.8 kB

  • Original 333.7 kB
  • After minification 305.9 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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 278.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 73.9 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. KCRW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 144.9 kB
  • After minification 141.2 kB
  • After compression 116.3 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 28.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 136.5 kB
  • After minification 136.5 kB
  • After compression 114.7 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. Kcrw.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (41%)

Requests Now

154

After Optimization

91

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 154 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KCRW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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127 ms

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386 ms

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Accessibility Review

kcrw.co accessibility score

83

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-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

kcrw.co 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kcrw.co SEO score

83

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 Kcrw.co 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 Kcrw.co 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

kcrw.co

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of KCRW. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: