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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

palyalumni.net

Alumni & Friends of Palo Alto High School Classes of 1897 - 2023, Palo Alto, CA

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to palyalumni.net homepage info - get ready to check Paly Alumni best content right away, or after learning these important things about palyalumni.net

This is the official web site for the Alumni & Friends of Palo Alto High School Classes of 1897 - 2023

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Key Findings

We analyzed Palyalumni.net page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 4 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

palyalumni.net performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

class_index.cfm

209 ms

fbds.js

22 ms

styles.min.css

30 ms

jquery.js

61 ms

css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Palyalumni.net, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Classcreator.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Palyalumni.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 541.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

9.2 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Palyalumni.net main page is 9.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 84.4 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 103.4 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 84.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 427.1 kB

  • Original 8.4 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Paly Alumni images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 590.5 kB
  • After minification 590.5 kB
  • After compression 564.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 66.9 kB
  • After minification 66.7 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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. Palyalumni.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (47%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Paly Alumni. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

palyalumni.net accessibility score

78

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

palyalumni.net 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

palyalumni.net SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Palyalumni.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Palyalumni.net 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 Paly Alumni. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: