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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gowerancestry.com

Gower Ancestry | Family History Wales | Genealogy Wales | Genealogist Wales | Family History Researcher Wales | Wales | Swansea | Family Tree Wales | ...

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gowerancestry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 2.4 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

gowerancestry.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.183

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gowerancestry.com

245 ms

www.gowerancestry.com

422 ms

reset.css

92 ms

HoverFX.css

183 ms

style.css

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Gowerancestry.com, 20% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (708 ms) belongs to the original domain Gowerancestry.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gowerancestry.com main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.1 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 13.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 106.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Gower Ancestry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 232.7 kB
  • After minification 232.7 kB
  • After compression 226.2 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Gowerancestry.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (61%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gower Ancestry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gowerancestry.com accessibility score

58

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

gowerancestry.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gowerancestry.com SEO score

85

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gowerancestry.com 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 Gowerancestry.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gower Ancestry. 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: