Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ridgefield.org

Home - Ridgefield Public Schools

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

ridgefield.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ridgefield content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ridgefield.org

Welcome to the Internet home of the Ridgefield Public Schools. Together, the nine schools that comprise our district provide a safe, empowering learning environment for over 5000 pre-kindergarten thro...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ridgefield.org page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ridgefield.org performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.283

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ridgefield.org

57 ms

find_school.aspx

31 ms

www.ridgefield.org

112 ms

ps

94 ms

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Ridgefield.org, 11% (10 requests) were made to Lh4.googleusercontent.com and 10% (9 requests) were made to Sites.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (784 ms) relates to the external source Lh5.googleusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (17%)

Content Size

14.4 MB

After Optimization

11.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Ridgefield.org main page is 14.4 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. 85% 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 10.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 50.5 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 39.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 10.9 MB
  • After minification 10.9 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. Ridgefield images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 MB
  • After compression 910.3 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 1.7 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 775.9 kB

  • Original 923.1 kB
  • After minification 920.4 kB
  • After compression 147.2 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. Ridgefield.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 775.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (43%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ridgefield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ridgefield.org 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

ridgefield.org 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

SEO Factors

ridgefield.org 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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ridgefield.org 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 Ridgefield.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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