Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

place.scholastic.com

Scholastic | Books for Kids | Learning Resources

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Place.scholastic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

place.scholastic.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

place.scholastic.com

47 ms

home

89 ms

clientlib-dependencies.js

211 ms

clientlib-dependencies.min.js

93 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Place.scholastic.com, 65% (73 requests) were made to Scholastic.com and 5% (6 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 Scholastic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (23%)

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Place.scholastic.com main page is 10.1 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 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 86.4 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 80.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 903.2 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Obviously, Place Scholastic needs image optimization as it can save up to 903.2 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 589.0 kB

  • Original 852.7 kB
  • After minification 852.7 kB
  • After compression 263.7 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 589.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 730.1 kB

  • Original 819.5 kB
  • After minification 681.2 kB
  • After compression 89.5 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. Place.scholastic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 730.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (41%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Place Scholastic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

place.scholastic.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

place.scholastic.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

place.scholastic.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Place.scholastic.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 Place.scholastic.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Place Scholastic. 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: