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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

classroomdirect.com

Classroom Direct - Teacher Supplies, Classroom Supplies, and School Supplies - CLASSROOM DIRECT

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

623 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

668 ms

About Website

Visit classroomdirect.com now to see the best up-to-date Classroom Direct content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about classroomdirect.com

Classroom Direct provides best-selling PreK-8 Teacher Supplies and School Supplies at budget-friendly prices. Shop arts & crafts, office supplies, classroom furniture and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Classroomdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 623 ms and then it took 4.6 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

classroomdirect.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

teacher-favorites

623 ms

icon

99 ms

styles.min.css

39 ms

css2

120 ms

jquery.min.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 208 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Classroomdirect.com, 34% (71 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (18 requests) were made to Images.schoolspecialty.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (28%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Classroomdirect.com main page is 7.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 288.5 kB

  • Original 328.4 kB
  • After minification 269.8 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 58.6 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 288.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Classroom Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 598.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 650.5 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 598.8 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 187.2 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. Classroomdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (50%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Classroom Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

classroomdirect.com accessibility score

74

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

classroomdirect.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

classroomdirect.com SEO score

76

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

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 Classroomdirect.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 Classroomdirect.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 Classroom Direct. 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: