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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

chalkbeat.org

Chalkbeat - National

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

839 ms

Page Rendered

917 ms

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About Website

Welcome to chalkbeat.org homepage info - get ready to check Chalkbeat best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about chalkbeat.org

Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization committed to covering one of America's most important stories: the effort to improve schools for all children.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chalkbeat.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chalkbeat.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chalkbeat.org

15 ms

www.chalkbeat.org

556 ms

css

60 ms

default.css

22 ms

default.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Chalkbeat.org, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) belongs to the original domain Chalkbeat.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 445.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Chalkbeat.org main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 444.9 kB

  • Original 547.0 kB
  • After minification 546.9 kB
  • After compression 102.1 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. 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 444.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Chalkbeat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 197.4 kB
  • After minification 197.4 kB
  • After compression 197.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (13%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chalkbeat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

chalkbeat.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

chalkbeat.org best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

chalkbeat.org SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chalkbeat.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 Chalkbeat.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

chalkbeat.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chalkbeat. 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: