Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

kidsreadingcircle.com

Children's Book Reviews - KidsReadingCircle.com helps kids choose books with age-specific booklists, book reviews, book news and a reading incenti...

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

816 ms

Page Rendered

89 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Kids Reading Circle content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kidsreadingcircle.com

Kids Reading Circle provides children's book reviews and book lists, and summer reading list, as well as K-12 lesson plans, printables, incentive contests, parental reading tips, trivia, and children'...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kidsreadingcircle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 905 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

kidsreadingcircle.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kidsreadingcircle.com

170 ms

kidsreadingcircle.com

240 ms

copyread.css

59 ms

date.js

119 ms

seal.gif

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Kidsreadingcircle.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (284 ms) belongs to the original domain Kidsreadingcircle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

98.4 kB

After Optimization

92.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Kidsreadingcircle.com main page is 98.4 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 87.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 5.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 124 B

  • Original 87.9 kB
  • After minification 87.8 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. Kids Reading Circle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 68 B

  • Original 485 B
  • After minification 485 B
  • After compression 417 B

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 68 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 565 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Kidsreadingcircle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 565 B or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kids Reading Circle. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

kidsreadingcircle.com accessibility score

72

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

kidsreadingcircle.com best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

kidsreadingcircle.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kidsreadingcircle.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 Kidsreadingcircle.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kids Reading Circle. 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: