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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

homeschoolconnections.com

Catholic Homeschool | High-Quality Courses - Homeschool Connections

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeschoolconnections.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeschoolconnections.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeschoolconnections.com

1391 ms

prettyPhoto.css

30 ms

wp-video-lightbox.css

37 ms

blocks.style.build.css

23 ms

broadcasts.css

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Homeschoolconnections.com, 11% (12 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 5% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Homeschoolconnections.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

8.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeschoolconnections.com main page is 9.1 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

-84%

Potential reduce by 247.8 kB

  • Original 294.8 kB
  • After minification 288.4 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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 247.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 8.5 MB
  • After minification 8.5 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. Homeschool Connections images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 196.7 kB
  • After minification 196.7 kB
  • After compression 173.2 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 23.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 171.0 kB
  • After compression 161.1 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. Homeschoolconnections.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (70%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homeschool Connections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homeschoolconnections.com

homeschoolconnections.com

1391 ms

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Accessibility Review

homeschoolconnections.com accessibility score

83

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

homeschoolconnections.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

homeschoolconnections.com SEO score

91

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

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 Homeschoolconnections.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 Homeschoolconnections.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

homeschoolconnections.com

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