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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

mcds.org

Marin Country Day School: An independent K-8 school in the SF Bay Area

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Visit mcds.org now to see the best up-to-date Mcds content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mcds.org

MCDS is an independent, K-8 coed day school. Our core program balances rigorous academics with the arts, athletics, outdoor education, and community service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcds.org page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 3.8 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

mcds.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.707

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcds.org

46 ms

www.mcds.org

58 ms

www.mcds.org

1167 ms

gtm.js

71 ms

gtm.js

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Mcds.org, 19% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Mcds.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mcds.org main page is 2.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 74.1 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. 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 64.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Mcds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 693.2 kB
  • After minification 693.2 kB
  • After compression 690.9 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 32.4 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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. Mcds.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (33%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mcds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mcds.org

mcds.org

46 ms

www.mcds.org

www.mcds.org

58 ms

www.mcds.org

www.mcds.org

1167 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

71 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

128 ms

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148 ms

main.css

main.css

47 ms

support.custom.css

support.custom.css

46 ms

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171 ms

kya8cxi.js

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103 ms

weglot.min.js

weglot.min.js

65 ms

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233 ms

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main.js

94 ms

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65 ms

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48 ms

updated-logo.svg

updated-logo.svg

187 ms

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196 ms

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193 ms

home_page_spotlight.jpg

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191 ms

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192 ms

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193 ms

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website_grid_love_of_learning.jpg

195 ms

FORTE_Music.jpg

FORTE_Music.jpg

194 ms

poweredby-7fe9cdfc8db6c2419477639e585e15f5fceee483b4a26452877dabab357cb391.svg

poweredby-7fe9cdfc8db6c2419477639e585e15f5fceee483b4a26452877dabab357cb391.svg

195 ms

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webfont.js

145 ms

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133 ms

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170 ms

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171 ms

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Accessibility Review

mcds.org accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mcds.org best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mcds.org SEO score

93

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

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 Mcds.org 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 Mcds.org 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

mcds.org

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