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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% 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

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

teachct.org

TEACH CT • The Education Association of Christian Homeschoolers in Connecticut

Page Load Speed

869 ms in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

601 ms

Page Rendered

214 ms

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About Website

Welcome to teachct.org homepage info - get ready to check TEACH CT best content right away, or after learning these important things about teachct.org

TEACH-CT is The Education Association of Christian Homeschoolers in Connecticut. Advocating for homeshool Freedoms. Equipping Home Educators.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Teachct.org page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 815 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

teachct.org performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

teachct.org

54 ms

www.teachct.org

271 ms

all.min.css

21 ms

main.css

27 ms

default.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Teachct.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (271 ms) belongs to the original domain Teachct.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 140.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Teachct.org main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 5.3 kB, which is 22% 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 19.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 118.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. TEACH CT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 314 B

  • Original 50.0 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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. Teachct.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TEACH CT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

teachct.org

teachct.org

54 ms

www.teachct.org

www.teachct.org

271 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

21 ms

main.css

main.css

27 ms

default.css

default.css

29 ms

orman.css

orman.css

26 ms

pascal.css

pascal.css

29 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

26 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

33 ms

jquery.html5-placeholder-shim.js

jquery.html5-placeholder-shim.js

35 ms

EmailObfuscator.js

EmailObfuscator.js

36 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

36 ms

css

css

26 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

10 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

94 ms

blue-bg-2.png

blue-bg-2.png

87 ms

red-bg.png

red-bg.png

24 ms

yellow-bg.png

yellow-bg.png

22 ms

teach-logo.png

teach-logo.png

30 ms

menu-bg.png

menu-bg.png

22 ms

home.png

home.png

23 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

23 ms

teach-ct_website_graphic.695x288.png

teach-ct_website_graphic.695x288.png

48 ms

discipleship1.695x288.jpg

discipleship1.695x288.jpg

40 ms

banner_-_legislative_news.695x288.png

banner_-_legislative_news.695x288.png

64 ms

harvard_post_pandemic_interview_session_1.695x288.png

harvard_post_pandemic_interview_session_1.695x288.png

64 ms

get-connected.png

get-connected.png

41 ms

red-button-bg.png

red-button-bg.png

40 ms

shadow-2.png

shadow-2.png

50 ms

box-bg.png

box-bg.png

49 ms

hslda_button_new.png

hslda_button_new.png

50 ms

nheri.161x0.jpg

nheri.161x0.jpg

60 ms

portals_logo.190x0-is.png

portals_logo.190x0-is.png

57 ms

parentalrights.jpg

parentalrights.jpg

59 ms

masshopelogo.74x0.jpg

masshopelogo.74x0.jpg

58 ms

leah.101x0.jpg

leah.101x0.jpg

67 ms

banner_-_legislative_alert_square.160x0-is.png

banner_-_legislative_alert_square.160x0-is.png

69 ms

calendar.179x0-is.jpg

calendar.179x0-is.jpg

68 ms

download.150x150.jpg

download.150x150.jpg

68 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

73 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

73 ms

font

font

45 ms

modernpictogramspro_2-webfont.woff

modernpictogramspro_2-webfont.woff

75 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

77 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

js

js

78 ms

Accessibility Review

teachct.org accessibility score

83

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

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

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

teachct.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

teachct.org SEO score

67

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

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 Teachct.org 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 Teachct.org 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

teachct.org

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