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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

pps.k12.pa.us

Pittsburgh Public Schools / Homepage

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pps.k12.pa.us page load time and found that the first response time was 402 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 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pps.k12.pa.us performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,210 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.701

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pps.k12.pa.us

402 ms

100 ms

default.aspx

89 ms

OpenSans-Light.css

76 ms

OpenSans-Italic.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Pps.k12.pa.us, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) relates to the external source Widget.uservoice.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 588.5 kB (62%)

Content Size

946.4 kB

After Optimization

358.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pps.k12.pa.us main page is 946.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 361.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 162.7 kB

  • Original 194.5 kB
  • After minification 191.6 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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 162.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 229.4 kB
  • After minification 219.3 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. Pps K 12 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 277.3 kB

  • Original 361.7 kB
  • After minification 254.9 kB
  • After compression 84.4 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 277.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 138.4 kB

  • Original 160.8 kB
  • After minification 114.0 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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. Pps.k12.pa.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 138.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (62%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pps K 12. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pps.k12.pa.us

pps.k12.pa.us

402 ms

100 ms

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default.aspx

89 ms

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76 ms

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82 ms

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82 ms

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Accessibility Review

pps.k12.pa.us accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

Best Practices

pps.k12.pa.us 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

pps.k12.pa.us 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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pps.k12.pa.us 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 Pps.k12.pa.us main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

pps.k12.pa.us

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pps K 12. 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: