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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

howardcountymuseum.org

Howard County Historical Society and Seiberling Mansion

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

457 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

811 ms

About Website

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Howard County Historical Society, featuring the Howard County Museum and the Seiberling Mansion, in Kokomo, Indiana

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howardcountymuseum.org page load time and found that the first response time was 457 ms and then it took 2.2 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

howardcountymuseum.org performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.89

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howardcountymuseum.org

457 ms

font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

15 ms

animate.min.css

37 ms

sppagebuilder.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Howardcountymuseum.org, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (457 ms) belongs to the original domain Howardcountymuseum.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Howardcountymuseum.org main page is 4.6 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 164.3 kB
  • After minification 163.4 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 144.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Howard County Museum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 338 B

  • Original 157.2 kB
  • After minification 157.2 kB
  • After compression 156.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 83.8 kB
  • After minification 83.8 kB
  • After compression 82.6 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. Howardcountymuseum.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (66%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howard County Museum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

howardcountymuseum.org accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

howardcountymuseum.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

howardcountymuseum.org SEO score

83

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Howardcountymuseum.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 Howardcountymuseum.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 Howard County Museum. 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: