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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

homeeddirectory.com

Home | Home Educators Resource Directory

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

849 ms

homeeddirectory.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Home Ed Directory content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about homeeddirectory.com

The Home Educators Resource Directory is your one-stop destination for information, supplies, services, and support tailored to the homeschool community's needs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeeddirectory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeeddirectory.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.homeeddirectory.com

316 ms

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82 ms

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21 ms

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31 ms

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79 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Homeeddirectory.com, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (811 ms) belongs to the original domain Homeeddirectory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 953.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

10.0 MB

After Optimization

9.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeeddirectory.com main page is 10.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 110.7 kB

  • Original 123.0 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 59.0 kB, which is 48% 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 110.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 675.4 kB

  • Original 9.0 MB
  • After minification 8.4 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. Home Ed Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 111.1 kB

  • Original 600.0 kB
  • After minification 600.0 kB
  • After compression 488.8 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 111.1 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 235.2 kB
  • After minification 235.2 kB
  • After compression 178.7 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. Homeeddirectory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (21%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Ed Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.homeeddirectory.com

www.homeeddirectory.com

316 ms

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82 ms

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21 ms

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31 ms

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79 ms

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79 ms

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Accessibility Review

homeeddirectory.com accessibility score

86

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

homeeddirectory.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

homeeddirectory.com SEO score

85

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

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 Homeeddirectory.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 Homeeddirectory.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

homeeddirectory.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Home Ed Directory. 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: