Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

stories.k12.com

Whats Your Story: Online Public School Programs | Online Learning Programs

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

7 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stories.k12.com page load time and found that the first response time was 7 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

stories.k12.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,550 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stories.k12.com

7 ms

stories.k12.com

12 ms

www.k12.com

132 ms

frontend.css

25 ms

css2

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Stories.k12.com, 95% (74 requests) were made to K12.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (895 ms) relates to the external source K12.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 558.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Stories.k12.com main page is 6.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 276.1 kB

  • Original 338.6 kB
  • After minification 330.7 kB
  • After compression 62.5 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 276.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Stories K 12 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 281.1 kB

  • Original 469.8 kB
  • After minification 469.8 kB
  • After compression 188.6 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 281.1 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 69.0 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 67.7 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. Stories.k12.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (37%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stories K 12. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stories.k12.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

stories.k12.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

stories.k12.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Stories.k12.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 Stories.k12.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Stories K 12. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: