Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

findmypast.com

Find Your Ancestors & Family History - Genealogy & Ancestry - findmypast.co.uk | findmypast.com

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Findmypast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

findmypast.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

findmypast.com

277 ms

www.findmypast.com

402 ms

brand-header.css

222 ms

brand-header-legacy-support.css

96 ms

brand-footer-legacy-support.css

223 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Findmypast.com, 24% (21 requests) were made to D3nd02ak4v4ued.cloudfront.net and 11% (10 requests) were made to I.findmypast.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source I.findmypast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 904.0 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

989.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Findmypast.com main page is 1.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 715.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 50.4 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 6.6 kB, which is 13% 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 39.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 715.7 kB
  • After minification 665.5 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. Find Mypast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 432.9 kB

  • Original 667.4 kB
  • After minification 618.3 kB
  • After compression 234.5 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 432.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 381.6 kB

  • Original 460.2 kB
  • After minification 433.9 kB
  • After compression 78.7 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. Findmypast.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 381.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (72%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Find Mypast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

findmypast.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

findmypast.com 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

findmypast.com SEO score

89

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

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 Findmypast.com 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 Findmypast.com 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 Find Mypast. 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: