katu.com website review

A phone's processor spends 12.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 5.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Taboola, Spot.IM and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 4.5 MB and 2.7 s of main-thread time.

About 1.7 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

Taboola costs a phone 966 ms of main-thread work and 2.1 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.

16 images could be 839 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 61. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

144 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (760 KiB).

Spot.IM costs a phone 660 ms of main-thread work and 633 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 532 ms of main-thread work and 717 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.

19 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

The page has 2,366 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Tealium costs a phone 95 ms of main-thread work and 380 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.

About 149 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 183 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 91 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Visually, the page fills in at 15.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 49.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 849 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Your largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

1 image 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' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 7.2 MB in 724 requests on a phone: scripts 4.2 MB (109), images 2.1 MB (185) and other files 526 KiB (373). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.05 g of CO₂e: 246.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

3 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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.

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

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

Your meta description is 284 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

9 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

6 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 124 pages on katu.com and 19 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.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

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.

/news/local/salem-police-investigate-after-30-people-surround-and-block-ice-agents has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/weather, /news/investigations, /sports, /money and /watch use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/weather, /news/investigations, /sports and /money have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 111 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 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.”).

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED”.

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

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

Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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 1,008 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Criteo, Google Ads and Google Analytics and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Ketch) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 18 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 76 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.