Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

choate.edu

Choate Rosemary Hall | Private Boarding & Day School

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Choate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 2.3 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

choate.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

choate.edu

97 ms

index.cfm

985 ms

styles.cfm

147 ms

ss.css

95 ms

jquery.min.js

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Choate.edu, 15% (11 requests) were made to Securejs.finalsite.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Farm6.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) belongs to the original domain Choate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 636.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Choate.edu 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 29.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.3 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. Choate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 370.6 kB

  • Original 524.3 kB
  • After minification 477.2 kB
  • After compression 153.7 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 370.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 219.0 kB

  • Original 254.3 kB
  • After minification 191.5 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. Choate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 219.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (51%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choate. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

choate.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

choate.edu 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

choate.edu SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Choate.edu 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 Choate.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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