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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

readingeggs.co.uk

Learning to Read for Kids | Learn to Read with Phonics | Free Trial – Reading Eggs

Page Load Speed

683 ms in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

422 ms

Page Rendered

188 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Reading Eggs content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about readingeggs.co.uk

Reading Eggs is the online reading program that helps children learn to read. Hundreds of online reading lessons, phonics games and books for ages 2–13. Start your free trial!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Readingeggs.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 610 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

readingeggs.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

readingeggs.co.uk

73 ms

screen.css

21 ms

modernizr.custom.js

19 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

18 ms

cfd82063cf4e09ca68c1bd45d50e65a0.js

226 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Readingeggs.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (226 ms) relates to the external source Cookie-script.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.5 kB (39%)

Content Size

713.2 kB

After Optimization

431.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Readingeggs.co.uk main page is 713.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 339.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 12.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 339.8 kB
  • After minification 318.5 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. Reading Eggs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 126.2 kB
  • After minification 122.9 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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 51.9 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 195.4 kB

  • Original 228.1 kB
  • After minification 186.8 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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. Readingeggs.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (61%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reading Eggs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

readingeggs.co.uk 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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

readingeggs.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

readingeggs.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Readingeggs.co.uk 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 Readingeggs.co.uk 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 Reading Eggs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: