Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

bykids.org

BYkids | Empowering Young Documentary Filmmakers

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

687 ms

Page Rendered

239 ms

About Website

Visit bykids.org now to see the best up-to-date BYkids content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bykids.org

BYkids proudly produces documentaries by kids, and partners with public television and educators to inspire conversations around global issues.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bykids.org page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 926 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bykids.org performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bykids.org

78 ms

bykids.org

231 ms

webfont.js

35 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

16 ms

style.min.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Bykids.org, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Bykids.org main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 33.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. BYkids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 103.2 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 17.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 150.5 kB
  • After minification 150.5 kB
  • After compression 112.6 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. Bykids.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.8 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (74%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BYkids. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bykids.org accessibility score

72

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

bykids.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bykids.org SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bykids.org 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 Bykids.org 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 BYkids. 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: