Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

greatkids.org

Parenting Articles, Worksheets, & Handy Resources | GreatSchools

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

greatkids.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Great Kids content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about greatkids.org

GreatSchools.org is a free, mobile-friendly nonprofit parenting site devoted to helping parents guide their children to success in school and at home.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatkids.org page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 1.5 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

greatkids.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.057

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatkids.org

85 ms

74 ms

language-selector.css

36 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

72 ms

custom-styles.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Greatkids.org, 67% (58 requests) were made to Greatschools.org and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (673 ms) relates to the external source Greatschools.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (67%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

708.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Greatkids.org main page is 2.1 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 72.9 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 72.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 215.0 kB
  • After minification 203.4 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. Great Kids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 835.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 398.9 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 835.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 508.0 kB

  • Original 596.7 kB
  • After minification 549.8 kB
  • After compression 88.7 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. Greatkids.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 508.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (62%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Kids. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greatkids.org accessibility score

74

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

greatkids.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

greatkids.org SEO score

77

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Greatkids.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 Greatkids.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 Great Kids. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: