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houstonisd.org

Houston Independent School District / Houston ISD Homepage

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Houston ISD content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about houstonisd.org

Welcome to the homepage of the Houston Independent School District. HISD has 276 schools and over 194,000 students, making it the largest district in Texas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houstonisd.org page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 1.7 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

houstonisd.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

houstonisd.org

65 ms

www.houstonisd.org

98 ms

default.aspx

214 ms

jquery.jgrowl.css

58 ms

system.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Houstonisd.org, 8% (6 requests) were made to Extend.schoolwires.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (455 ms) belongs to the original domain Houstonisd.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (39%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houstonisd.org main page is 3.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 299.1 kB

  • Original 348.5 kB
  • After minification 344.6 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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 299.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 135.4 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Houston ISD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 406.4 kB

  • Original 596.8 kB
  • After minification 562.1 kB
  • After compression 190.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 406.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 405.7 kB

  • Original 520.0 kB
  • After minification 471.4 kB
  • After compression 114.3 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. Houstonisd.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 405.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (61%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houston ISD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

houstonisd.org SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houstonisd.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Houstonisd.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

houstonisd.org

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