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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

germanroots.com

German Genealogy Information & Resources | German Roots

Page Load Speed

606 ms in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

356 ms

Page Rendered

159 ms

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About Website

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

Genealogy resources and research information for Americans with German ancestors. With links to online databases. Formerly the wee-monster genealogy website.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Germanroots.com page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 515 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

germanroots.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

germanroots.com

91 ms

groots

38 ms

groots

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Germanroots.com, 67% (2 requests) were made to Stuff.mit.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (208 ms) relates to the external source Stuff.mit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.1 kB (67%)

Content Size

6.2 kB

After Optimization

2.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Germanroots.com main page is 6.2 kB. This result falls within a big category (top 100 000) of medium weight web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 6.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 4.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 170 B
  • After minification 170 B

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. German Roots images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • Images

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of German Roots. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

germanroots.com

germanroots.com

91 ms

groots

groots

38 ms

groots

groots

208 ms

Accessibility Review

germanroots.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

germanroots.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

germanroots.com SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Germanroots.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 Germanroots.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

germanroots.com

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