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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

kidsahead.com

Kids Ahead - The coolest science, technology, engineering, and math stuff for kids like you!

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

303 ms

About Website

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

The Kids Ahead program is an initiative to increase the number of kids with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competencies and interests.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kidsahead.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kidsahead.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kidsahead.com

1299 ms

yui.reset-3.1.1.min.css

32 ms

screen.css

159 ms

script.min.js

65 ms

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Kidsahead.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Kidsahead.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 280.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kidsahead.com main page is 5.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 3.0 kB, which is 11% 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 21.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 109.5 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Kids Ahead images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 70.4 kB

  • Original 124.2 kB
  • After minification 120.6 kB
  • After compression 53.8 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 70.4 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 93.0 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. Kidsahead.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (9%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

63

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kids Ahead. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

kidsahead.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

kidsahead.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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

kidsahead.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Kidsahead.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 Kidsahead.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 Kids Ahead. 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: