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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% 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

homeschoolbase.com

Homeschool Base - The modern resource for homeschooling

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

Visit homeschoolbase.com now to see the best up-to-date Homeschool Base content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about homeschoolbase.com

Homeschooling resources and curriculum for both beginning and tenured homeschoolers. Find the answers to all of your homeschooling questions and needs here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeschoolbase.com page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeschoolbase.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.814

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeschoolbase.com

246 ms

homeschoolbase.com

86 ms

css

46 ms

style.min.css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Homeschoolbase.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (468 ms) belongs to the original domain Homeschoolbase.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

629.1 kB

After Optimization

582.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeschoolbase.com main page is 629.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 404.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 44.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 306 B

  • Original 97.7 kB
  • After minification 97.4 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. Homeschool Base images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 404.6 kB
  • After minification 404.6 kB
  • After compression 403.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 293 B

  • Original 68.9 kB
  • After minification 68.9 kB
  • After compression 68.6 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. Homeschoolbase.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (78%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homeschool Base. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homeschoolbase.com

homeschoolbase.com

246 ms

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86 ms

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46 ms

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27 ms

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53 ms

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54 ms

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62 ms

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128 ms

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75 ms

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69 ms

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89 ms

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79 ms

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90 ms

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100 ms

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100 ms

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106 ms

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jetpack.css

120 ms

jquery.min.js

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114 ms

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jquery-migrate.min.js

125 ms

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149 ms

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44 ms

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149 ms

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149 ms

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150 ms

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190 ms

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190 ms

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191 ms

slider.css

slider.css

191 ms

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194 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

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195 ms

index.js

index.js

195 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

216 ms

expand.js

expand.js

222 ms

frontend.min.js

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227 ms

api.js

api.js

51 ms

index.js

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220 ms

styling.min.js

styling.min.js

216 ms

jquery.cycle.min.js

jquery.cycle.min.js

230 ms

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468 ms

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25 ms

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304 ms

gtm.js

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103 ms

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109 ms

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182 ms

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182 ms

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180 ms

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97 ms

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44 ms

analytics.js

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77 ms

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48 ms

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71 ms

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55 ms

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16 ms

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3 ms

Accessibility Review

homeschoolbase.com 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.

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

homeschoolbase.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homeschoolbase.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 Homeschoolbase.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 Homeschoolbase.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 Homeschool Base. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: