Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

columbusacademy.org

Columbus Academy | Premier Private School in Columbus, Ohio

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

910 ms

Page Rendered

326 ms

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About Website

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Columbus Academy, a premier coeducational independent day school in the U.S., provides an exceptional educational experience to students throughout Central Ohio.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbusacademy.org page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

columbusacademy.org performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,340 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.666

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

columbusacademy.org

30 ms

www.columbusacademy.org

28 ms

js

138 ms

google_tag.script.js

8 ms

css_FhKh-stPfgb5OErnziyhKnqjCCr90gWgr-wTyP7uw20.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Columbusacademy.org, 13% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) relates to the external source Px.ads.linkedin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 388.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Columbusacademy.org main page is 3.9 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. 80% 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 96.9 kB

  • Original 124.5 kB
  • After minification 109.7 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 14.8 kB, which is 12% 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 96.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 256.9 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Columbus Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 268.3 kB
  • After minification 268.3 kB
  • After compression 246.5 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

-21%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 61.1 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 48.0 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. Columbusacademy.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.1 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (41%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbus Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

columbusacademy.org accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

columbusacademy.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

columbusacademy.org SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Columbusacademy.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 Columbusacademy.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Columbus Academy. 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: