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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

mdschool.com

Maryland School of Sailing; Chesapeake, Caribbean, Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

667 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mdschool.com page load time and found that the first response time was 667 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mdschool.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mdschool.com

667 ms

ga.js

8 ms

maryland_index.gif

665 ms

Facebook%20Logo2.jpg

667 ms

ASA_Award_School_small.jpg

663 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Mdschool.com, 19% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 13% (4 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Mdschool.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

482.1 kB

After Optimization

458.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mdschool.com main page is 482.1 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. 75% 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 216.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 16.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 216.5 kB
  • After minification 212.0 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. Md School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 184.5 kB
  • After minification 184.5 kB
  • After compression 182.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Mdschool.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (18%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Md School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mdschool.com accessibility score

50

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

mdschool.com best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mdschool.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mdschool.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Mdschool.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 Md School. 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: