Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kera.org

KERA - PBS, NPR and more for North Texas and the world

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

445 ms

kera.org screenshot

About Website

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

PBS and NPR for North Texas, the fourth-largest population area in the country. Each week, two million people listen to and watch programming on KERA TV, KERA

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kera.org page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 4.9 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

kera.org performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,680 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kera.org

27 ms

www.kera.org

746 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

45 ms

style.css

11 ms

wordpress_file_upload_style.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Kera.org, 5% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Kera.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (58%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

789.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Kera.org main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 20.8 kB, which is 19% 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 89.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 413.2 kB
  • After minification 365.6 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. Obviously, KERA needs image optimization as it can save up to 47.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 680.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 914.4 kB
  • After compression 348.6 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 680.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 282.1 kB

  • Original 337.6 kB
  • After minification 276.0 kB
  • After compression 55.5 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. Kera.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 282.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (67%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KERA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kera.org accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kera.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kera.org SEO score

83

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

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 Kera.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 Kera.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

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