Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ktla.com

KTLA | Los Angeles News, Weather and Live Video from Southern California

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

572 ms

ktla.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing KTLA content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ktla.com

KTLA is Southern California's source for Los Angeles breaking news, weather, traffic and live streaming video for L.A., Orange County, Ventura County, and the Inland Empire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ktla.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ktla.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value56.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ktla.com

29 ms

amzn_ads.js

30 ms

ooya9.js

169 ms

241 ms

227 ms

Our browser made a total of 233 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ktla.com, 14% (32 requests) were made to Tribktla.files.wordpress.com and 6% (14 requests) were made to Optimized-by.rubiconproject.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) relates to the external source Pixel.rubiconproject.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (50%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ktla.com main page is 4.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 329.2 kB

  • Original 376.9 kB
  • After minification 375.3 kB
  • After compression 47.7 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 329.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 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. KTLA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 730.8 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 1.7 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 126.9 kB

  • Original 158.6 kB
  • After minification 145.6 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. Ktla.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 138 (66%)

Requests Now

208

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 208 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KTLA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 95 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ktla.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

ktla.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

ktla.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ktla.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 Ktla.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 KTLA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: