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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 65

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

greatschools.org

School Ratings & Reviews for Public & Private Schools: GreatSchools

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

550 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatschools.org page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatschools.org performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatschools.org

104 ms

www.greatschools.org

448 ms

application-2d5dc316d4bd8a0be9af35b89e54b604.css

32 ms

application-663abc4004ae780215593ab1ad659f50.js

65 ms

381721527.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Greatschools.org, 11% (8 requests) were made to Google.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (448 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatschools.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatschools.org main page is 2.5 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 54.3 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 7.0 kB, which is 11% 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 46.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 520.3 kB
  • After minification 515.9 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. Great Schools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 896.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 500.2 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 896.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 359.3 kB

  • Original 527.4 kB
  • After minification 524.7 kB
  • After compression 168.1 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. Greatschools.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 359.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (59%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Schools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

greatschools.org

greatschools.org

104 ms

www.greatschools.org

www.greatschools.org

448 ms

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32 ms

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65 ms

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30 ms

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47 ms

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138 ms

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137 ms

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jsapi

71 ms

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event

29 ms

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gtm.js

49 ms

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69 ms

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main.js

80 ms

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34 ms

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65 ms

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96 ms

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34 ms

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64 ms

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46 ms

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47 ms

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95 ms

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65 ms

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64 ms

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77 ms

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analytics.js

analytics.js

39 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

22 ms

gateway.min.js

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39 ms

fbevents.js

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36 ms

aquant.js

aquant.js

15 ms

beacon.js

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75 ms

8Vo.js

8Vo.js

109 ms

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23 ms

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107 ms

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94 ms

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229 ms

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138 ms

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136 ms

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136 ms

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118 ms

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145 ms

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144 ms

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97 ms

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258 ms

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219 ms

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142 ms

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55 ms

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104 ms

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59 ms

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77 ms

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31 ms

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34 ms

Accessibility Review

greatschools.org accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

greatschools.org best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

greatschools.org SEO score

65

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Greatschools.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 Greatschools.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

greatschools.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Great Schools. 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: