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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

kiplinger.com

Kiplinger | Personal Finance News, Investing Advice, Business Forecasts

Page Load Speed

123.5 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

73.9 sec

Page Rendered

49.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kiplinger.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 123.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kiplinger.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kiplinger.com

112 ms

www.kiplinger.com

725 ms

kiplinger.js

650 ms

bootstrap.min.css

575 ms

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776 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Kiplinger.com, 8% (16 requests) were made to Quotespeed.morningstar.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to Dianomi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.6 sec) relates to the external source Ad.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 MB (34%)

Content Size

10.5 MB

After Optimization

7.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kiplinger.com main page is 10.5 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. 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 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 161.2 kB

  • Original 206.8 kB
  • After minification 180.1 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 26.8 kB, which is 13% 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 161.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 420.1 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Kiplinger images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 2.3 MB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 2.3 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 703.5 kB

  • Original 864.7 kB
  • After minification 817.4 kB
  • After compression 161.2 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. Kiplinger.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 703.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (58%)

Requests Now

166

After Optimization

70

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 166 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kiplinger. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

kiplinger.com accessibility score

98

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

kiplinger.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kiplinger.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kiplinger.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Kiplinger.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

kiplinger.com

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