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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 47

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

bitsofhistory.com

Barry & Darling Your Home For Ancient Coins and Artifacts

Page Load Speed

686 ms in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

432 ms

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bitsofhistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 590 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bitsofhistory.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bitsofhistory.com

96 ms

default.css

88 ms

transitionshow.js

89 ms

brand

8 ms

brandjs.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Bitsofhistory.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (229 ms) belongs to the original domain Bitsofhistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

240.8 kB

After Optimization

217.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bitsofhistory.com main page is 240.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 218.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.6 kB, which is 19% 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 10.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 218.1 kB
  • After minification 206.3 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. Bitsofhistory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 852 B

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 852 B or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 334 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Bitsofhistory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 334 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bitsofhistory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bitsofhistory.com

bitsofhistory.com

96 ms

default.css

default.css

88 ms

transitionshow.js

transitionshow.js

89 ms

brand

brand

8 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

19 ms

coin21.jpg

coin21.jpg

58 ms

branding.png

branding.png

19 ms

bg1c.jpg

bg1c.jpg

59 ms

bg2a.jpg

bg2a.jpg

86 ms

topbg.gif

topbg.gif

76 ms

buttonbg.gif

buttonbg.gif

78 ms

arch-2.jpg

arch-2.jpg

75 ms

menubg.gif

menubg.gif

63 ms

menuactive.gif

menuactive.gif

90 ms

border1.gif

border1.gif

94 ms

db2.gif

db2.gif

107 ms

VC0809-012t.jpg

VC0809-012t.jpg

135 ms

VC0809-019t.jpg

VC0809-019t.jpg

137 ms

AR0509-290t.jpg

AR0509-290t.jpg

116 ms

AR0509-018t.jpg

AR0509-018t.jpg

120 ms

AR0509-289t.jpg

AR0509-289t.jpg

151 ms

AR0909-005t.jpg

AR0909-005t.jpg

138 ms

AR0509-292t.jpg

AR0509-292t.jpg

150 ms

AR0909-022t.jpg

AR0909-022t.jpg

151 ms

AR0809-127t.jpg

AR0809-127t.jpg

167 ms

AR0809-110t.jpg

AR0809-110t.jpg

169 ms

border2.gif

border2.gif

170 ms

icon-more.gif

icon-more.gif

176 ms

boxbg.gif

boxbg.gif

177 ms

a-mask.jpg

a-mask.jpg

183 ms

pretty_republic.gif

pretty_republic.gif

203 ms

inscr2a.jpg

inscr2a.jpg

229 ms

artifact9.jpg

artifact9.jpg

114 ms

artifact3.jpg

artifact3.jpg

89 ms

artifact2.jpg

artifact2.jpg

155 ms

coin3.jpg

coin3.jpg

150 ms

artifact12.jpg

artifact12.jpg

95 ms

Accessibility Review

bitsofhistory.com accessibility score

47

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

bitsofhistory.com best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

bitsofhistory.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bitsofhistory.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 Bitsofhistory.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

bitsofhistory.com

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