Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

childcare.net

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Page Load Speed

20.5 sec in total

First Response

3.5 sec

Resources Loaded

16.5 sec

Page Rendered

427 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Childcare.net page load time and found that the first response time was 3.5 sec and then it took 17 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

childcare.net performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

childcare.net

3530 ms

www.childcare.net

5138 ms

styles.css

5578 ms

scripts.js

5727 ms

brand

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Childcare.net, 9% (5 requests) were made to Api.proofpositivemedia.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Childcare.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 347.8 kB (52%)

Content Size

669.9 kB

After Optimization

322.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Childcare.net main page is 669.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 422.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 58.4 kB

  • Original 81.7 kB
  • After minification 80.0 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 58.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 157.1 kB
  • After minification 156.9 kB

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. Child Care images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 282.1 kB

  • Original 422.2 kB
  • After minification 371.9 kB
  • After compression 140.1 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 282.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Childcare.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (67%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Child Care. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

childcare.net accessibility score

84

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

childcare.net best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

childcare.net SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Childcare.net 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 Childcare.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Child Care. 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: