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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

berkshirehistory.org

Berkshire County Historical Society - Home of Herman Melville from 1850-1863. Dedicated to preserving the history of Berkshire County and the Arrowhea...

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

365 ms

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About Website

Visit berkshirehistory.org now to see the best up-to-date Berkshire History content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about berkshirehistory.org

Home of Herman Melville from 1850-1863. Dedicated to preserving the history of Berkshire County and the Arrowhead farm.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Berkshirehistory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

berkshirehistory.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

berkshirehistory.org

160 ms

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275 ms

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24 ms

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46 ms

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53 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Berkshirehistory.org, 13% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Dipr2nuwo661l.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (339 ms) relates to the external source Fareharbor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Berkshirehistory.org main page is 2.6 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 102.0 kB

  • Original 133.9 kB
  • After minification 132.4 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. 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 102.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Berkshire History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-8%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 237.2 kB
  • After minification 237.2 kB
  • After compression 218.2 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. Berkshirehistory.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (67%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Berkshire 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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160 ms

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33 ms

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Accessibility Review

berkshirehistory.org accessibility score

90

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

berkshirehistory.org best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

berkshirehistory.org 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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Berkshirehistory.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 Berkshirehistory.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

berkshirehistory.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Berkshire History. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: