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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

raisingreaders.co.za

Home | Raising Readers

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

605 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Raisingreaders.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 605 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

raisingreaders.co.za performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

raisingreaders.co.za

605 ms

fff0fbfac793d432facbcbb761f54256.css

502 ms

mother-and-daughter-reader-together-1.png

508 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

394 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

430 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Raisingreaders.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (605 ms) belongs to the original domain Raisingreaders.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 314.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Raisingreaders.co.za main page is 5.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 168.6 kB

  • Original 206.0 kB
  • After minification 205.7 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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 168.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 145.8 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Raising Readers images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 404 B

  • Original 125.8 kB
  • After minification 125.8 kB
  • After compression 125.4 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. Raisingreaders.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Raising Readers. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

raisingreaders.co.za

raisingreaders.co.za

605 ms

fff0fbfac793d432facbcbb761f54256.css

fff0fbfac793d432facbcbb761f54256.css

502 ms

mother-and-daughter-reader-together-1.png

mother-and-daughter-reader-together-1.png

508 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

394 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

430 ms

Modelista.woff

Modelista.woff

493 ms

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raising-readers-logo-no-background.png

103 ms

image-of-children-reading-books.png

image-of-children-reading-books.png

597 ms

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tracy-watkins-tutor-e1692526420741.png

200 ms

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raising-readers-tutor-nicki-hargreaves-e1695971748160.png

199 ms

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Gill-Steele-001.png

201 ms

Cindy-Lee-Berndt-01.png

Cindy-Lee-Berndt-01.png

487 ms

Abi-West.png

Abi-West.png

487 ms

cindy-seach-tutor.png

cindy-seach-tutor.png

299 ms

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raising-readers-logo-no-background-350x100.png

298 ms

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payment-methods.png

300 ms

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tracy-watkins-tutor-e1692526420741-200x200.png

399 ms

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494 ms

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Gill-Steele-01-200x200.png

398 ms

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Abi-West-200x200.png

498 ms

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cindy-seach-tutor-200x200.png

497 ms

Accessibility Review

raisingreaders.co.za 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

raisingreaders.co.za best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

raisingreaders.co.za SEO score

88

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

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 Raisingreaders.co.za 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 Raisingreaders.co.za 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 Raising Readers. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: