abc7.com website review

84 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (16.7 MB).

38 images could be 12.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.

About 2.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.1 s faster on a phone.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.8 s.

Your mobile performance score is 35 (desktop: 38). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 8.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 5.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (abcotvs.net, Google/Doubleclick Ads and disney.com and others), adding 6.4 MB and 2.9 s of main-thread time.

abcotvs.net costs a phone 883 ms of main-thread work and 1.8 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 736 ms of main-thread work and 1.2 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

disney.com costs a phone 534 ms of main-thread work and 1.9 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

About 168 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Google CDN costs a phone 336 ms of main-thread work and 730 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 283 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

The page has 2,679 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

espn.com costs a phone 186 ms of main-thread work and 351 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Polyfills for old browsers add 30 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Your largest element takes 63.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Visually, the page fills in at 36.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 90.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 3.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

31 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 222 ms to 225 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 23.1 MB in 474 requests on a phone: images 16.1 MB (71), scripts 5.5 MB (215) and other files 1.0 MB (169). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

5 images weigh 4.2 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 11477555_011822-kabc-live-channel-thumb-img.jpg at 1,920 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 2.7 MB.

40 images (7.8 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

36 images further down the page (6.4 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 6.54 g of CO₂e: 785.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 18 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

6 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

4 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 79 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Users should be able to zoom and scale the text up to 500%: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (16 elements).

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Structured data found (Organization, WebPage and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: missing name”.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 184 pages on abc7.com and 15 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

/orange-county, /inland-empire, /ventura-county, /california, /feature/gas-calculator-find-how-costs-fill-tank-based-car-where-live/19430135 and /espanol and 2 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/feature/gas-calculator-find-how-costs-fill-tank-based-car-where-live/19430135 and /pricetracker have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 103 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

9 of 40 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://disneyprivacycenter.com/kids-privacy-policy/english/.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

abc7.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

abc7.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 1,202 words of visible text.

abc7.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 17 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.