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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

colonialwilliamsburg.org

Colonial Williamsburg | The World's Largest Living History Museum

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

762 ms

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Colonialwilliamsburg.org page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 2.1 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

colonialwilliamsburg.org performance score

38

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

colonialwilliamsburg.org

59 ms

www.colonialwilliamsburg.org

130 ms

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26 ms

flatpickr.min.30f64a741bc9.css

45 ms

main.bundled.ed5f8e949294.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Colonialwilliamsburg.org, 41% (20 requests) were made to Media.colonialwilliamsburg.org and 33% (16 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (402 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Colonialwilliamsburg.org main page is 3.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 105.1 kB

  • Original 139.7 kB
  • After minification 122.6 kB
  • After compression 34.6 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 17.1 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 105.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Colonial Williamsburg images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Colonial Williamsburg. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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59 ms

www.colonialwilliamsburg.org

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130 ms

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26 ms

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47 ms

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27 ms

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402 ms

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365 ms

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299 ms

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110 ms

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110 ms

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136 ms

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139 ms

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136 ms

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138 ms

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137 ms

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159 ms

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Accessibility Review

colonialwilliamsburg.org accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

colonialwilliamsburg.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

colonialwilliamsburg.org SEO score

92

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

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 Colonialwilliamsburg.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 Colonialwilliamsburg.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

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