Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

schoolquality.virginia.gov

Home Page - Virginia School Quality Profiles - Virginia School Quality Profiles

Page Load Speed

791 ms in total

First Response

224 ms

Resources Loaded

497 ms

Page Rendered

70 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Schoolquality.virginia.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 224 ms and then it took 567 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

schoolquality.virginia.gov performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.373

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

schoolquality.virginia.gov

224 ms

style.min.css

24 ms

app.css

29 ms

style.css

19 ms

livicons-help.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Schoolquality.virginia.gov, 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (224 ms) belongs to the original domain Schoolquality.virginia.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 121.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Schoolquality.virginia.gov main page is 2.8 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. 75% 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 6.1 kB, which is 11% 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 45.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. School Quality Virginia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 409.4 kB
  • After minification 409.4 kB
  • After compression 376.3 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

-58%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 62.1 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. Schoolquality.virginia.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.8 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (80%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of School Quality Virginia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

schoolquality.virginia.gov accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

schoolquality.virginia.gov best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

schoolquality.virginia.gov SEO score

83

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Schoolquality.virginia.gov 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 Schoolquality.virginia.gov 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 data is detected on the main page of School Quality Virginia. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: