Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

childcareed.com

Online Courses - ChildCareEd

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

744 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

childcareed.com screenshot

About Website

Visit childcareed.com now to see the best up-to-date Child Care Ed content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about childcareed.com

Online trainings and courses for early childhood and child care professionals. Earn or renew CDA, earn pre-service training hours to open your child care center.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Childcareed.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

childcareed.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

childcareed.com

78 ms

www.childcareed.com

135 ms

all.min.css

33 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

46 ms

bootstrap.min.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Childcareed.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (208 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Childcareed.com main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 868.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 80.7 kB

  • Original 94.6 kB
  • After minification 66.7 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 27.9 kB, which is 30% 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 80.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 868.3 kB
  • After minification 865.0 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. Child Care Ed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 56.8 kB

  • Original 144.4 kB
  • After minification 144.3 kB
  • After compression 87.6 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 56.8 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 56.0 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Childcareed.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (50%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Child Care Ed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

childcareed.com accessibility score

83

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

childcareed.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

childcareed.com SEO score

93

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

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 Childcareed.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 Childcareed.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 data is detected on the main page of Child Care Ed. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: