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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

california.benchmarkeducation.com

Benchmark Education Company - Building Literacy and Language for Life

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

598 ms

About Website

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Benchmark Education is a leading provider of literacy and language programs, intervention resources, and professional teaching resources for K-12 ELA learning.

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Key Findings

We analyzed California.benchmarkeducation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

california.benchmarkeducation.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,690 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.benchmarkeducation.com

1066 ms

calendar.min.css

8 ms

mpBlogIcon.min.css

29 ms

styles-m.min.css

42 ms

all.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 188 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original California.benchmarkeducation.com, 2% (4 requests) were made to Site-marketing-sites.s3.amazonaws.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Benchmarkeducation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of California.benchmarkeducation.com main page is 2.9 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. 80% 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 188.8 kB

  • Original 227.2 kB
  • After minification 213.8 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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 188.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 673 B

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. California Benchmark Education images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 320.4 kB
  • After minification 320.0 kB
  • After compression 272.2 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 48.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 697 B

  • Original 180.8 kB
  • After minification 180.8 kB
  • After compression 180.1 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. California.benchmarkeducation.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 146 (84%)

Requests Now

173

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 173 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of California Benchmark Education. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 132 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

california.benchmarkeducation.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

california.benchmarkeducation.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

california.benchmarkeducation.com SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 California.benchmarkeducation.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 California.benchmarkeducation.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 California Benchmark Education. 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: