Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

cityschools.net

Home Page - Murfreesboro City Schools

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

548 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

cityschools.net screenshot

About Website

Visit cityschools.net now to see the best up-to-date City Schools content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cityschools.net

(Rutherford County) Prekindergarten through sixth grade system comprised of twelve schools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityschools.net page load time and found that the first response time was 548 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityschools.net performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cityschools.net

548 ms

style.css

175 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

118 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

117 ms

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Cityschools.net, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Cityschools.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Cityschools.net main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 28.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. City Schools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 49.0 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 82.3 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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 49.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 28.2 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Cityschools.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (42%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Schools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cityschools.net accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

cityschools.net best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cityschools.net SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cityschools.net 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 Cityschools.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 City Schools. 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: