Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

ancestryireland.com

Home | Ulster Historical Foundation

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

ancestryireland.com screenshot

About Website

Visit ancestryireland.com now to see the best up-to-date Ancestryireland content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ancestryireland.com

The Ulster Historical Foundation is a long-established, highly reputable research and publishing agency.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ancestryireland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ancestryireland.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ancestryireland.com

1201 ms

style.css

387 ms

jquery.ui.all.css

144 ms

sidebar-login.css

164 ms

css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Ancestryireland.com, 19% (29 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 14% (21 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ancestryireland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 615.0 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

841.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Ancestryireland.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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 691.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 38.7 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 31.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 605.7 kB
  • After minification 574.9 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. Ancestryireland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 450.4 kB

  • Original 691.0 kB
  • After minification 687.0 kB
  • After compression 240.6 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 450.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 102.5 kB

  • Original 120.6 kB
  • After minification 90.2 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. Ancestryireland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (59%)

Requests Now

145

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 145 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ancestryireland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ancestryireland.com accessibility score

70

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ancestryireland.com best practices score

58

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

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

SEO Factors

ancestryireland.com SEO score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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