Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

the39clues.com

39 Clues

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

544 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed The39clues.com page load time and found that the first response time was 83 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

the39clues.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,030 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.463

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the39clues.com

83 ms

www.the39clues.com

48 ms

the39clues.scholastic.com

221 ms

navigation.css

117 ms

bootstrap_components.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 221 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original The39clues.com, 33% (73 requests) were made to S3.plus.scholastic.com and 30% (67 requests) were made to Cdn.static.the39clues.scholastic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (486 ms) relates to the external source Doublecross.scholastic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of The39clues.com main page is 4.0 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. 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 62.6 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 53.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 136.2 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. The 39 Clues images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 747.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 327.4 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 747.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 160.8 kB

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 189.7 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. The39clues.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (26%)

Requests Now

216

After Optimization

160

The browser has sent 216 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The 39 Clues. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

the39clues.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

the39clues.com best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

the39clues.com SEO score

75

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

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 The39clues.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 The39clues.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The 39 Clues. 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: