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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

genealogytoday.com

Genealogy Today | Family Tree History, Ancestry, Free Lookups

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

231 ms

Resources Loaded

984 ms

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

Visit genealogytoday.com now to see the best up-to-date Genealogy Today content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about genealogytoday.com

genealogy and family tree history, ancestry databases with 4.36 million names along with resources, lookups, records search and original articles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Genealogytoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 231 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

genealogytoday.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

genealogytoday.com

231 ms

gentoday-core.css

289 ms

gentoday-css2.css

292 ms

bootstrap.min.css

512 ms

gentoday-unboot.css

221 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Genealogytoday.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (512 ms) belongs to the original domain Genealogytoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 557.4 kB (67%)

Content Size

830.3 kB

After Optimization

273.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Genealogytoday.com main page is 830.3 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. CSS take 532.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. 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 25.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 47.4 kB

  • Original 174.6 kB
  • After minification 127.2 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. Obviously, Genealogy Today needs image optimization as it can save up to 47.4 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 90.4 kB
  • After minification 90.4 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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 26.4 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 458.2 kB

  • Original 532.0 kB
  • After minification 526.4 kB
  • After compression 73.8 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. Genealogytoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 458.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (16%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Genealogy Today. 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

genealogytoday.com

genealogytoday.com

231 ms

gentoday-core.css

gentoday-core.css

289 ms

gentoday-css2.css

gentoday-css2.css

292 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

512 ms

gentoday-unboot.css

gentoday-unboot.css

221 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

77 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

299 ms

funeral2_color.jpg

funeral2_color.jpg

148 ms

getting_started_75.gif

getting_started_75.gif

148 ms

family_history_75.gif

family_history_75.gif

149 ms

research_tools_75.gif

research_tools_75.gif

144 ms

advanced_topics_75.gif

advanced_topics_75.gif

152 ms

gt_home_458x52.gif

gt_home_458x52.gif

148 ms

mast_l2_cropped.gif

mast_l2_cropped.gif

220 ms

rhp16.jpg

rhp16.jpg

287 ms

ration_color.jpg

ration_color.jpg

217 ms

mugshot_color.jpg

mugshot_color.jpg

220 ms

railroad_color.jpg

railroad_color.jpg

221 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

Accessibility Review

genealogytoday.com accessibility score

85

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.

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

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

genealogytoday.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

genealogytoday.com SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Genealogytoday.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 Genealogytoday.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

genealogytoday.com

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