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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

growingkids.com

Growing Kids Learning Center - Childcare And Preschool In Northern Indiana

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Welcome to Growing Kids Learning Center! We offer childcare and preschool to families in the Northern Indiana area, including South Bend, Elkhart, Valparaiso, Goshen, Bristol, and Chesterton. Visit ou...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Growingkids.com page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

growingkids.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

growingkids.com

80 ms

growingkids.com

3093 ms

vsa6hxz.css

11 ms

init.css

13 ms

style.min.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Growingkids.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Img.youtube.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Growingkids.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 856.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Growingkids.com main page is 9.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 250.8 kB

  • Original 290.5 kB
  • After minification 282.8 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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 250.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 392.9 kB

  • Original 8.5 MB
  • After minification 8.1 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. Growing Kids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 142.2 kB
  • After minification 142.2 kB
  • After compression 124.7 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 17.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 195.0 kB

  • Original 303.1 kB
  • After minification 303.0 kB
  • After compression 108.1 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. Growingkids.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (63%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Growing Kids. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

growingkids.com

growingkids.com

80 ms

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3093 ms

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vsa6hxz.css

11 ms

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13 ms

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20 ms

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22 ms

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21 ms

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28 ms

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33 ms

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34 ms

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30 ms

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29 ms

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65 ms

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30 ms

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43 ms

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44 ms

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44 ms

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50 ms

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47 ms

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47 ms

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48 ms

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47 ms

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48 ms

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185 ms

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194 ms

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49 ms

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51 ms

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156 ms

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155 ms

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148 ms

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146 ms

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172 ms

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244 ms

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178 ms

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378 ms

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248 ms

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175 ms

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178 ms

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190 ms

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247 ms

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217 ms

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276 ms

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244 ms

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88 ms

Accessibility Review

growingkids.com accessibility score

74

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

growingkids.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

growingkids.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Growingkids.com 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 Growingkids.com 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

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