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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

charlestondayschool.org

Welcome to Charleston Day School | K-8 private school

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

862 ms

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Visit charlestondayschool.org now to see the best up-to-date Charleston Day School content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about charlestondayschool.org

Charleston Day School is a coeducational, private, independent K-8 school in Charleston, SC. Our mission is to foster scholarship...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlestondayschool.org page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 2.4 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

charlestondayschool.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.913

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charlestondayschool.org

168 ms

www.charlestondayschool.org

29 ms

yzw1rom.js

106 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

11 ms

style.min.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Charlestondayschool.org, 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (189 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Charlestondayschool.org main page is 3.0 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. 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 121.0 kB

  • Original 150.4 kB
  • After minification 118.3 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 32.1 kB, which is 21% 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 121.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Charleston Day School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 416.5 kB
  • After minification 416.5 kB
  • After compression 393.0 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 92.6 kB
  • After minification 91.3 kB
  • After compression 75.7 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. Charlestondayschool.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (67%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charleston Day 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

charlestondayschool.org

charlestondayschool.org

168 ms

www.charlestondayschool.org

www.charlestondayschool.org

29 ms

yzw1rom.js

yzw1rom.js

106 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

sbi-styles.min.css

11 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

23 ms

styles.css

styles.css

22 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

21 ms

sumoselect.min.css

sumoselect.min.css

21 ms

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.min.css

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.min.css

21 ms

css

css

42 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

20 ms

style.css

style.css

26 ms

perfect-scrollbar.css

perfect-scrollbar.css

26 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

26 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

25 ms

jquery.sumoselect.min.js

jquery.sumoselect.min.js

65 ms

tocca.min.js

tocca.min.js

26 ms

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.concat.min.js

jquery.mCustomScrollbar.concat.min.js

30 ms

jquery.fullscreen.min.js

jquery.fullscreen.min.js

30 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

28 ms

main.js

main.js

28 ms

swiper.min.js

swiper.min.js

29 ms

js

js

69 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

30 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

31 ms

index.js

index.js

31 ms

index.js

index.js

35 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

responsiveslides.min.js

31 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

33 ms

perfect-scrollbar.jquery.min.js

perfect-scrollbar.jquery.min.js

33 ms

api.js

api.js

44 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

33 ms

index.js

index.js

33 ms

sbi-scripts.min.js

sbi-scripts.min.js

34 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

189 ms

sbi-sprite.png

sbi-sprite.png

188 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

114 ms

magnifier.svg

magnifier.svg

54 ms

close.svg

close.svg

52 ms

charleston_logo.svg

charleston_logo.svg

57 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

55 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

53 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

61 ms

arrow_in_circle_right_white.svg

arrow_in_circle_right_white.svg

61 ms

Charleston-Day-students-on-school-steps-scaled.jpg

Charleston-Day-students-on-school-steps-scaled.jpg

179 ms

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arrow_in_circle_right_gold.svg

59 ms

197-Additional-Sept.-2023-Tim-Coffey-Photography-scaled.jpg

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134 ms

Charleston-Day-School-students-in-classroom-scaled.jpg

Charleston-Day-School-students-in-classroom-scaled.jpg

175 ms

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169 ms

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66 ms

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arrow_navigation.svg

67 ms

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loading.svg

166 ms

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news.svg

167 ms

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bulb.svg

169 ms

video_section_background.jpg

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175 ms

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180 ms

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175 ms

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charleston_logo_white.svg

176 ms

heart.svg

heart.svg

182 ms

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115 ms

PlayfairDisplay-Italic.ttf

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185 ms

PlayfairDisplay-Regular.ttf

PlayfairDisplay-Regular.ttf

183 ms

WorkSans-Regular.ttf

WorkSans-Regular.ttf

166 ms

WorkSans-Medium.ttf

WorkSans-Medium.ttf

183 ms

p.gif

p.gif

155 ms

magnifier.svg

magnifier.svg

166 ms

close.svg

close.svg

168 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

170 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

177 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

173 ms

news.svg

news.svg

180 ms

bulb.svg

bulb.svg

183 ms

charlestondayschool.org

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127 ms

anchor

anchor

49 ms

styles__ltr.css

styles__ltr.css

10 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

50 ms

www.charlestondayschool.org

www.charlestondayschool.org

41 ms

PSKopaksc4v0TeE9MSufUBd6uLsTLN3_1JKIESb4JYg.js

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54 ms

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webworker.js

51 ms

logo_48.png

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41 ms

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39 ms

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45 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

34 ms

Accessibility Review

charlestondayschool.org accessibility score

84

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

charlestondayschool.org 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

charlestondayschool.org SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Charlestondayschool.org 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 Charlestondayschool.org 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

charlestondayschool.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Charleston Day School. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: