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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

thesycamoreschoolva.org

The Sycamore School: Innovative Education in Northern Virginia

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

662 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Sycamore School Va content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thesycamoreschoolva.org

The Sycamore School is an independent secondary school cultivating a love of learning for students in grades 5-12 in Arlington, Virginia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesycamoreschoolva.org page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesycamoreschoolva.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesycamoreschoolva.org

89 ms

prettyPhoto.css

36 ms

wp-video-lightbox.css

58 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

59 ms

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143 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Thesycamoreschoolva.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesycamoreschoolva.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 372.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Thesycamoreschoolva.org main page is 2.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 164.6 kB
  • After minification 160.7 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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 134.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 237.9 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Obviously, The Sycamore School Va needs image optimization as it can save up to 237.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (74%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sycamore School Va. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thesycamoreschoolva.org accessibility score

89

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

thesycamoreschoolva.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thesycamoreschoolva.org 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 Thesycamoreschoolva.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 Thesycamoreschoolva.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

thesycamoreschoolva.org

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