Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

kotatv.com

KOTA | South Dakota Local News, Weather, Sports | Rapid City, SD

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

kotatv.com screenshot

About Website

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Rapid City, South Dakota daily news from KOTA Territory TV

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kotatv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kotatv.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kotatv.com

76 ms

www.kotatv.com

37 ms

core-common-redirect.js

12 ms

core-desktop.css

38 ms

client-desktop.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 220 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (123 requests) were addressed to the original Kotatv.com, 3% (7 requests) were made to Ml314.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (626 ms) belongs to the original domain Kotatv.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Kotatv.com main page is 3.3 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 173.0 kB

  • Original 202.7 kB
  • After minification 168.6 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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 34.1 kB, which is 17% 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 173.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 84.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. KOTA Tv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 656.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 524.4 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 656.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 274.4 kB

  • Original 457.4 kB
  • After minification 453.7 kB
  • After compression 183.0 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. Kotatv.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 274.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (38%)

Requests Now

206

After Optimization

128

The browser has sent 206 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KOTA Tv. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kotatv.com accessibility score

84

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

kotatv.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kotatv.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kotatv.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 Kotatv.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

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