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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

kqcd.com

KFYR-TV/KMOT/ KUMV/KQCD | Bismarck-Minot-Williston-Dickinson

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kqcd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kqcd.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kqcd.com

81 ms

349 ms

R_CSS.css

17 ms

jquery.min.js

13 ms

bootstrap.js

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kqcd.com, 29% (37 requests) were made to Media.graytvinc.com and 13% (16 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (631 ms) relates to the external source Gray.ftp.clickability.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 943.2 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kqcd.com main page is 2.9 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. 75% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 127.8 kB

  • Original 161.0 kB
  • After minification 133.7 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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 27.3 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 127.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 103.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. KQCD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 690.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 383.9 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 690.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Kqcd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (43%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KQCD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kqcd.com

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349 ms

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Accessibility Review

kqcd.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

kqcd.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

kqcd.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kqcd.com 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 Kqcd.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

kqcd.com

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