Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 54

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

schoolspecialty.com

School Supplies, Teacher Supplies, Classroom Supplies and Furniture from School Specialty - SCHOOL SPECIALTY MARKETPLACE

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

379 ms

schoolspecialty.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Schoolspecialty.com page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

schoolspecialty.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,730 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

schoolspecialty.com

156 ms

www.schoolspecialty.com

142 ms

10

533 ms

ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp

567 ms

gate.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 151 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Schoolspecialty.com, 79% (119 requests) were made to Store.schoolspecialty.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (567 ms) relates to the external source Store.schoolspecialty.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 708.5 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

768.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Schoolspecialty.com main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 648.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 168.0 kB

  • Original 194.5 kB
  • After minification 183.0 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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 168.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 88.2 kB

  • Original 648.2 kB
  • After minification 559.9 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, SCHOOL SPECIALTY needs image optimization as it can save up to 88.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 277.5 kB

  • Original 427.8 kB
  • After minification 421.2 kB
  • After compression 150.4 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 277.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 174.8 kB

  • Original 206.2 kB
  • After minification 157.8 kB
  • After compression 31.4 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. Schoolspecialty.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 174.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (68%)

Requests Now

140

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 140 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SCHOOL SPECIALTY. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 72 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

schoolspecialty.com accessibility score

71

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Best Practices

schoolspecialty.com best practices score

54

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Uses deprecated APIs

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

schoolspecialty.com SEO score

83

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

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 Schoolspecialty.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 Schoolspecialty.com 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 SCHOOL SPECIALTY. 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: