Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

sonofthesouth.net

 The Civil War

Page Load Speed

922 ms in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

638 ms

Page Rendered

165 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sonofthesouth.net page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 803 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sonofthesouth.net performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,090 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sonofthesouth.net

119 ms

civil-war.css

54 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

12 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

22 ms

show_ads.js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Sonofthesouth.net, 9% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (377 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

188.6 kB

After Optimization

161.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Sonofthesouth.net main page is 188.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 163.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 24.3 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 19.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 163.9 kB
  • After minification 156.4 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. Sonofthesouth images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 69 B

  • Original 447 B
  • After minification 447 B
  • After compression 378 B

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. Sonofthesouth.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (14%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sonofthesouth. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sonofthesouth.net accessibility score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sonofthesouth.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sonofthesouth.net SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sonofthesouth.net 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 Sonofthesouth.net main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Sonofthesouth. 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: