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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

phdirect.com

K-12 Learning Solutions | Education Curriculum | Savvas

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

713 ms

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About Website

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Savvas Learning Company creates award-winning K–12 education curriculum, assessments, and K-12 learning solutions to improve student outcomes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Phdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 2.6 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

phdirect.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.23

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

phdirect.com

72 ms

savvas.com

36 ms

www.savvas.com

82 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

23 ms

adrum-20.12.0.3360.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Phdirect.com, 39% (14 requests) were made to Savvas-media-cdn.azureedge.net and 19% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Ssapi.savvas.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 262.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

924.0 kB

After Optimization

661.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Phdirect.com main page is 924.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 603.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 133.1 kB

  • Original 152.6 kB
  • After minification 96.8 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 55.9 kB, which is 37% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 133.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8 B

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 16.1 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. Phdirect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 603.2 kB
  • After minification 603.2 kB
  • After compression 511.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 91.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 152.0 kB
  • After minification 152.0 kB
  • After compression 114.0 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. Phdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.0 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (54%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Phdirect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

phdirect.com

phdirect.com

72 ms

savvas.com

savvas.com

36 ms

www.savvas.com

www.savvas.com

82 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

VisitorIdentification.js

23 ms

adrum-20.12.0.3360.js

adrum-20.12.0.3360.js

20 ms

optimized-min.css

optimized-min.css

60 ms

optimized-min.css

optimized-min.css

76 ms

optimized-min.css

optimized-min.css

66 ms

pre-optimized-min.css

pre-optimized-min.css

84 ms

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optimized-min.js

120 ms

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optimized-min.js

66 ms

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65 ms

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optimized-min.js

78 ms

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optimized-min.js

106 ms

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optimized-min.js

354 ms

xfvwkytd.js

xfvwkytd.js

1718 ms

image-loading

image-loading

323 ms

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1040 ms

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backdrop.png

63 ms

css2

css2

280 ms

css2

css2

281 ms

section-angle.svg

section-angle.svg

425 ms

dropdown-arrow.svg

dropdown-arrow.svg

477 ms

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110 ms

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323 ms

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57 ms

404-page-not-found

404-page-not-found

274 ms

Accessibility Review

phdirect.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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 valid value for its [lang] attribute.

Best Practices

phdirect.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

phdirect.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Phdirect.com 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 Phdirect.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

phdirect.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Phdirect. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: