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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 37

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

exploresouthernhistory.com

ExploreSouthernHistory.com

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

387 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Exploresouthernhistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec 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

exploresouthernhistory.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.451

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

exploresouthernhistory.com

1355 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

108 ms

css

68 ms

style.css

125 ms

font-awesome.min.css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Exploresouthernhistory.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 13% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Exploresouthernhistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 252.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

883.3 kB

After Optimization

630.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Exploresouthernhistory.com main page is 883.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 566.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 26.3 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 21.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 566.9 kB
  • After minification 541.9 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. Explore Southern History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 153.1 kB

  • Original 222.9 kB
  • After minification 216.0 kB
  • After compression 69.8 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 153.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 53.3 kB

  • Original 66.5 kB
  • After minification 59.7 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. Exploresouthernhistory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (39%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore Southern History. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

exploresouthernhistory.com accessibility score

37

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

exploresouthernhistory.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

exploresouthernhistory.com SEO score

92

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

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

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 Exploresouthernhistory.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 Exploresouthernhistory.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 Explore Southern 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: