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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thehomeschoolhandbook.com

Because Education Matters, The Homeschool Handbook Magazine

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehomeschoolhandbook.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 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

thehomeschoolhandbook.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehomeschoolhandbook.com

170 ms

thehomeschoolhandbook.com

244 ms

style.min.css

173 ms

diggdigg-style.css

202 ms

form-basic.css

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Thehomeschoolhandbook.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Secure.gravatar.com and 3% (1 request) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (669 ms) belongs to the original domain Thehomeschoolhandbook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

215.5 kB

After Optimization

158.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehomeschoolhandbook.com main page is 215.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 74.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 40.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 713 B

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 13.0 kB

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 Homeschool Handbook images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 74.2 kB
  • After minification 74.2 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 70.4 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. Thehomeschoolhandbook.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.7 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (74%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Homeschool Handbook. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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thehomeschoolhandbook.com

170 ms

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244 ms

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173 ms

diggdigg-style.css

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202 ms

form-basic.css

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195 ms

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200 ms

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196 ms

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306 ms

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343 ms

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352 ms

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429 ms

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361 ms

functions.js

functions.js

361 ms

theme.css

theme.css

510 ms

ResetFormStyle.css

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510 ms

SubscriptionForm.css

SubscriptionForm.css

509 ms

Popup.js

Popup.js

522 ms

PopupConfig.js

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522 ms

PopupBuilder.js

PopupBuilder.js

594 ms

Subscription.js

Subscription.js

662 ms

Validate.js

Validate.js

669 ms

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229 ms

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232 ms

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306 ms

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378 ms

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391 ms

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442 ms

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520 ms

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293 ms

Accessibility Review

thehomeschoolhandbook.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

thehomeschoolhandbook.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thehomeschoolhandbook.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Thehomeschoolhandbook.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 Thehomeschoolhandbook.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

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