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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

khanacademy.com

Khan Academy

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

361 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Khanacademy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 361 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

khanacademy.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.khanacademy.org

361 ms

analytics.js

39 ms

homepage-package-bdd7db.css

144 ms

mobile-package-9eea13.css

126 ms

login-package-73e11b.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Khanacademy.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Khanacademy.org and 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (361 ms) relates to the external source Khanacademy.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 940.4 kB (72%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

361.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Khanacademy.com main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 643.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 287.5 kB

  • Original 348.0 kB
  • After minification 337.3 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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 287.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB

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. Khan Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 439.3 kB

  • Original 643.0 kB
  • After minification 643.0 kB
  • After compression 203.7 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 439.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 212.2 kB

  • Original 254.1 kB
  • After minification 254.1 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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. Khanacademy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 212.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (56%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Khan Academy. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

khanacademy.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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

khanacademy.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

khanacademy.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Khanacademy.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 Khanacademy.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 data is detected on the main page of Khan Academy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: