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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

designhistory.org

An Introduction to the History of Graphic Design

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

281 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

150 ms

About Website

Visit designhistory.org now to see the best up-to-date Design History content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about designhistory.org

An introduction to the History of Graphic Design from the dawn of writing until today, including the development of handwriting, history of type faces, history of books, Arts & Crafts and the Private ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designhistory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 281 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

designhistory.org performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

designhistory.org

281 ms

dh.css

168 ms

SpryCollapsiblePanel.js

259 ms

SpryCollapsiblePanel.css

195 ms

counter.php

95 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 Designhistory.org, 4% (1 request) were made to Hitwebcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (545 ms) belongs to the original domain Designhistory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Designhistory.org main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 18.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Design History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 12.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Designhistory.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design History. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

designhistory.org accessibility score

69

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

designhistory.org 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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

designhistory.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Designhistory.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Designhistory.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 Design History. 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: