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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

footstepsresearch.org

Home | Footsteps Research | Personalized WWII Research & Storytelling

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

938 ms

Page Rendered

662 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Footstepsresearch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 61 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

footstepsresearch.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

footstepsresearch.org

61 ms

footstepsresearch.org

66 ms

layerslider.css

45 ms

style.min.css

36 ms

blocks.style.build.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Footstepsresearch.org, 27% (22 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (333 ms) belongs to the original domain Footstepsresearch.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.2 kB (1%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Footstepsresearch.org main page is 7.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.5 kB

  • Original 98.6 kB
  • After minification 94.8 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 80.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Footsteps Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 355.3 kB
  • After minification 355.2 kB
  • After compression 345.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 181.8 kB
  • After minification 181.7 kB
  • After compression 176.7 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. Footstepsresearch.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (81%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Footsteps Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

footstepsresearch.org accessibility score

83

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

footstepsresearch.org best practices score

67

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

footstepsresearch.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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