Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

homeworknow.com

HomeworkNOW.com - easily communicate school alerts, homework, and classroom information with parents and students via website, iphone, ipad, android a...

Page Load Speed

521 ms in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

292 ms

Page Rendered

135 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeworknow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 427 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeworknow.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeworknow.com

94 ms

js

58 ms

base.css

46 ms

home.css

52 ms

slider.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Homeworknow.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (103 ms) belongs to the original domain Homeworknow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.9 kB (43%)

Content Size

60.1 kB

After Optimization

34.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Homeworknow.com main page is 60.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 23.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.6 kB, which is 22% 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 5.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Obviously, HomeworkNOW needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Homeworknow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (58%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HomeworkNOW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homeworknow.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

homeworknow.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

homeworknow.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homeworknow.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 Homeworknow.com 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 HomeworkNOW. 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: