Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

carolinaday.org

Carolina Day School | Accredited Independent School

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

767 ms

Page Rendered

602 ms

carolinaday.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carolinaday.org page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 1.4 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

carolinaday.org performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carolinaday.org

62 ms

www.carolinaday.org

42 ms

www.carolinaday.org

77 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

application-4518aa27942683a5a2d45585cb70afa8afe9043b7c17192a27bf6a7515e9e741.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Carolinaday.org, 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (160 ms) belongs to the original domain Carolinaday.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 325.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Carolinaday.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. 80% 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 110.7 kB
  • After minification 109.5 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 91.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Carolina Day images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 680.4 kB
  • After minification 680.4 kB
  • After compression 680.4 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

-69%

Potential reduce by 187.0 kB

  • Original 270.1 kB
  • After minification 83.1 kB
  • After compression 83.1 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. Carolinaday.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 187.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (40%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carolina Day. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

carolinaday.org accessibility score

99

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

Best Practices

carolinaday.org best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

carolinaday.org SEO score

83

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 Carolinaday.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 Carolinaday.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

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