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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

starfall.com

Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

Page Load Speed

11.7 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

7.9 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Starfall content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about starfall.com

At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Starfall.com page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 11.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

starfall.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

starfall.com

244 ms

www.starfall.com

538 ms

StarfallvBP.css

372 ms

DancingScript.css

371 ms

starfall-2017.png

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Starfall.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Starfall.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 480.3 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Starfall.com main page is 1.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 929.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 17% 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 18.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 929.1 kB
  • After minification 885.2 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. Starfall images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 211.1 kB

  • Original 309.0 kB
  • After minification 293.9 kB
  • After compression 97.8 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 211.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 207.3 kB

  • Original 237.2 kB
  • After minification 191.3 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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. Starfall.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 207.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (21%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Starfall. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

starfall.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

starfall.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

starfall.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Starfall.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Starfall.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 Starfall. 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: