Tools & Wizards About Us
todays6.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

todays6.com

Boise, Idaho News, Weather, Sports and Traffic | KIVI-TV

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

todays6.com screenshot

About Website

Visit todays6.com now to see the best up-to-date Todays 6 content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about todays6.com

Idaho News 6 is the source news in Boise and Twin Falls. Covering news and weather for the Treasure and Magic Valleys

Visit todays6.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Todays6.com page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

todays6.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,510 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

todays6.com

15 ms

www.kivitv.com

116 ms

All.min.c0f12707dfb7e901a25c897572525a25.gz.css

43 ms

6d6d25e3-5be4-444b-82ae-a8f0bb892234.js

52 ms

otSDKStub.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Todays6.com, 50% (70 requests) were made to Ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com and 8% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 622.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Todays6.com main page is 5.1 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 344.7 kB

  • Original 426.1 kB
  • After minification 380.3 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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 45.8 kB, which is 11% 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 344.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 214.7 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Todays 6 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 62.6 kB

  • Original 258.4 kB
  • After minification 258.4 kB
  • After compression 195.8 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 62.6 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 103 B

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 31.0 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. Todays6.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (25%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

87

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Todays 6. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

todays6.com

todays6.com

15 ms

www.kivitv.com

www.kivitv.com

116 ms

All.min.c0f12707dfb7e901a25c897572525a25.gz.css

All.min.c0f12707dfb7e901a25c897572525a25.gz.css

43 ms

6d6d25e3-5be4-444b-82ae-a8f0bb892234.js

6d6d25e3-5be4-444b-82ae-a8f0bb892234.js

52 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

54 ms

otCCPAiab.js

otCCPAiab.js

67 ms

tsu4adm.css

tsu4adm.css

78 ms

all.css

all.css

209 ms

All.min.3d26154467427d3d3c411b08052e5e4f.gz.js

All.min.3d26154467427d3d3c411b08052e5e4f.gz.js

54 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

85 ms

000000.json

000000.json

28 ms

dnsfeed

dnsfeed

98 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

56 ms

bidexchange.js

bidexchange.js

357 ms

5776_Scripps_Local_Stations.js

5776_Scripps_Local_Stations.js

134 ms

p.css

p.css

129 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

11 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

547 ms

127 ms

logo-scripps.png

logo-scripps.png

1028 ms

543 ms

605 ms

723 ms

1238 ms

1026 ms

723 ms

662 ms

809 ms

881 ms

964 ms

966 ms

1024 ms

1066 ms

1132 ms

1130 ms

1130 ms

1132 ms

1152 ms

1152 ms

1151 ms

1168 ms

1171 ms

1231 ms

1230 ms

1230 ms

1233 ms

1231 ms

1250 ms

1249 ms

1242 ms

1244 ms

1243 ms

1244 ms

1437 ms

1453 ms

collect

collect

497 ms

collect

collect

947 ms

collect

collect

1039 ms

collect

collect

1060 ms

collect

collect

461 ms

collect

collect

570 ms

d

d

418 ms

d

d

506 ms

d

d

507 ms

d

d

507 ms

d

d

507 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

566 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

784 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

868 ms

d

d

457 ms

d

d

565 ms

d

d

624 ms

d

d

710 ms

d

d

710 ms

1341 ms

weather

weather

526 ms

breaking-news-alerts

breaking-news-alerts

686 ms

alerts

alerts

612 ms

school-closings-delays

school-closings-delays

771 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

935 ms

pubcid.php

pubcid.php

259 ms

sync

sync

659 ms

tcb.js

tcb.js

731 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

710 ms

rtbsspub

rtbsspub

1177 ms

rtbsspub

rtbsspub

995 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

591 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

366 ms

887 ms

840 ms

784 ms

log

log

733 ms

723 ms

733 ms

rtbsspub

rtbsspub

490 ms

rtbsspub

rtbsspub

497 ms

clear.png

clear.png

410 ms

604 ms

566 ms

491 ms

430 ms

434 ms

401 ms

404 ms

sync

sync

73 ms

pubads_impl_2022092901.js

pubads_impl_2022092901.js

130 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

115 ms

rtbsspub

rtbsspub

311 ms

327 ms

341 ms

326 ms

340 ms

323 ms

320 ms

305 ms

309 ms

270 ms

258 ms

244 ms

247 ms

245 ms

246 ms

265 ms

257 ms

238 ms

254 ms

237 ms

249 ms

checksync.php

checksync.php

226 ms

syncframe

syncframe

35 ms

sync

sync

120 ms

generic

generic

91 ms

generic

generic

6 ms

cksync.html

cksync.html

33 ms

cksync

cksync

205 ms

1000.gif

1000.gif

113 ms

usync.html

usync.html

133 ms

cksync.php

cksync.php

66 ms

usync.js

usync.js

10 ms

Accessibility Review

todays6.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

todays6.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

todays6.com SEO score

91

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

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 Todays6.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 Todays6.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

todays6.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Todays 6. 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: