Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

kirkwoodschools.org

Home - Kirkwood School District

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

524 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kirkwoodschools.org page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kirkwoodschools.org performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,630 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.94

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kirkwoodschools.org

89 ms

www.kirkwoodschools.org

18 ms

www.kirkwoodschools.org

114 ms

pendo.js

141 ms

sri-failover.min.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Kirkwoodschools.org, 34% (49 requests) were made to Static.cdninstagram.com and 11% (16 requests) were made to Extend.schoolwires.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (713 ms) relates to the external source Instagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 709.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

7.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Kirkwoodschools.org main page is 8.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 453.2 kB

  • Original 539.8 kB
  • After minification 534.4 kB
  • After compression 86.6 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 453.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 223.4 kB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Kirkwood School S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 375.8 kB
  • After minification 373.7 kB
  • After compression 362.3 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 296.3 kB
  • After minification 296.1 kB
  • After compression 277.3 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. Kirkwoodschools.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 105 (78%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 134 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kirkwood School S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 83 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kirkwoodschools.org accessibility score

94

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

kirkwoodschools.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

kirkwoodschools.org SEO score

50

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

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 Kirkwoodschools.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 Kirkwoodschools.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 description is not detected on the main page of Kirkwood School S. 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: