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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

scholastic.com

Scholastic | Books for Kids | Learning Resources

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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About Website

Welcome to scholastic.com homepage info - get ready to check Scholastic best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about scholastic.com

Find the best kids books, learning resources, and educational solutions at Scholastic, promoting literacy development for over 100 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholastic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholastic.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

43 ms

clientlib-dependencies.js

386 ms

clientlib-dependencies.min.js

66 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

63 ms

clientlib-base.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Scholastic.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (387 ms) belongs to the original domain Scholastic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (30%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scholastic.com main page is 9.1 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 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 85.6 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 85.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 923.4 kB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Obviously, Scholastic needs image optimization as it can save up to 923.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 330.9 kB

  • Original 850.4 kB
  • After minification 850.3 kB
  • After compression 519.5 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 330.9 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 101.3 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. Scholastic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 93% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (27%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

66

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholastic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home

home

43 ms

clientlib-dependencies.js

clientlib-dependencies.js

386 ms

clientlib-dependencies.min.js

clientlib-dependencies.min.js

66 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

clientlib-base.min.css

63 ms

clientlib-base.css

clientlib-base.css

29 ms

clientlib-homepage-template.min.js

clientlib-homepage-template.min.js

26 ms

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clientlib-base.min.js

30 ms

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34 ms

footer.js

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35 ms

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112 ms

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29 ms

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26 ms

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13 ms

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18 ms

AppMeasurement.min.js

AppMeasurement.min.js

26 ms

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31 ms

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29 ms

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98 ms

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100 ms

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94 ms

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96 ms

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142 ms

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204 ms

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97 ms

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165 ms

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91 ms

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114 ms

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98 ms

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104 ms

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109 ms

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115 ms

Expand.svg

Expand.svg

126 ms

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120 ms

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128 ms

Accessibility Review

scholastic.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

scholastic.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

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

scholastic.com SEO score

84

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

scholastic.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scholastic. 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: