Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

back2schoolri.com

Back to School: The 2023-2024 School Year | RI Department of Education

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

376 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Back2schoolri.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

back2schoolri.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,650 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

back2schoolri.com

168 ms

back-school-2023-2024-school-year

67 ms

css_2DG22KwmSTEr4la6bid6pAJlG1CifhevAtrqvZPM4HU.css

27 ms

css_E5hWS06qriMFdguXjhE1CbGy8K5EOaMWsS0Q_i3QzFw.css

31 ms

css_B0Wy0-AdlswCRoik9CK53du94v-vUs3Tg_sdbJyQXus.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Back2schoolri.com, 65% (20 requests) were made to Ride.ri.gov and 16% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (233 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

513.9 kB

After Optimization

396.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Back2schoolri.com main page is 513.9 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. 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. Javascripts take 283.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 107.4 kB

  • Original 130.1 kB
  • After minification 102.4 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.7 kB, which is 21% 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 107.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Back 2 School RI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 283.2 kB
  • After minification 283.2 kB
  • After compression 273.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 119 B

  • Original 99.4 kB
  • After minification 99.4 kB
  • After compression 99.3 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. Back2schoolri.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (68%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Back 2 School RI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

back2schoolri.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

back2schoolri.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

back2schoolri.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Back2schoolri.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 Back2schoolri.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 Back 2 School RI. 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: