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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

curiousfox.com

CuriousFox UK genealogy message boards - villages, towns, local history, UK maps

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

423 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

237 ms

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About Website

Welcome to curiousfox.com homepage info - get ready to check Curious Fox best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about curiousfox.com

An easy to use message board for anybody researching UK genealogy, family or local history. 50,000 counties, towns, villages and hamlets with message boards and links to the exact location on old maps...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Curiousfox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 423 ms and then it took 2.3 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

curiousfox.com performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

curiousfox.com

423 ms

curiousfox.com

394 ms

www.curiousfox.com

549 ms

js

62 ms

stylephp.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Curiousfox.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (549 ms) belongs to the original domain Curiousfox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.4 kB (59%)

Content Size

36.4 kB

After Optimization

15.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Curiousfox.com main page is 36.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 29.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 28.3 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 20.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Curious Fox images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 942 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. Curiousfox.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 942 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

curiousfox.com

curiousfox.com

423 ms

curiousfox.com

curiousfox.com

394 ms

www.curiousfox.com

www.curiousfox.com

549 ms

js

js

62 ms

stylephp.css

stylephp.css

110 ms

stylem.css

stylem.css

208 ms

topmenuStylem.css

topmenuStylem.css

293 ms

foxbar.png

foxbar.png

112 ms

foxcflogo2.gif

foxcflogo2.gif

218 ms

DB_bar_left.gif

DB_bar_left.gif

183 ms

DB_Bar_Right.gif

DB_Bar_Right.gif

205 ms

FindVillage.gif

FindVillage.gif

280 ms

blue145.gif

blue145.gif

282 ms

blueSmB.gif

blueSmB.gif

288 ms

uk2addent.gif

uk2addent.gif

292 ms

SaveVillage.gif

SaveVillage.gif

305 ms

uk2GeosearchP.gif

uk2GeosearchP.gif

315 ms

uk2SignGreen.gif

uk2SignGreen.gif

378 ms

uk2MailGy.gif

uk2MailGy.gif

381 ms

uk2NAdmin.gif

uk2NAdmin.gif

386 ms

uk2NEnts.gif

uk2NEnts.gif

393 ms

uk2NAlerts.gif

uk2NAlerts.gif

404 ms

uk2NUpgrade.gif

uk2NUpgrade.gif

416 ms

uk2NRenew.gif

uk2NRenew.gif

477 ms

uk2Join.gif

uk2Join.gif

479 ms

orangeB.gif

orangeB.gif

487 ms

light145.gif

light145.gif

494 ms

Accessibility Review

curiousfox.com accessibility score

62

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

curiousfox.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

curiousfox.com SEO score

76

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Curiousfox.com 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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Curiousfox.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

curiousfox.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Curious Fox. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: