Tools & Wizards About Us
historicalrfa.org screenshot

Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

historicalrfa.org

Historical RFA recording the History and Honour of the RFA

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

538 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

historicalrfa.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to historicalrfa.org homepage info - get ready to check Historical RFA best content right away, or after learning these important things about historicalrfa.org

Bringing the History and Honour of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service to a wider audience, recording the deeds of the Service and the people who have served in it.

Visit historicalrfa.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Historicalrfa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 538 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

historicalrfa.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

historicalrfa.org

538 ms

content.css

107 ms

system.css

162 ms

position.css

160 ms

layout.css

184 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Historicalrfa.org, 2% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Translate.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (538 ms) belongs to the original domain Historicalrfa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

439.3 kB

After Optimization

322.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Historicalrfa.org main page is 439.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 234.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 36.4 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 29.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 234.1 kB
  • After minification 195.0 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, Historical RFA needs image optimization as it can save up to 39.1 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 137.6 kB
  • After compression 104.4 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 33.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. Historicalrfa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (67%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Historical RFA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

historicalrfa.org

historicalrfa.org

538 ms

content.css

content.css

107 ms

system.css

system.css

162 ms

position.css

position.css

160 ms

layout.css

layout.css

184 ms

general.css

general.css

176 ms

personal.css

personal.css

178 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

242 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

221 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

220 ms

caption.js

caption.js

250 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

314 ms

core.js

core.js

249 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

498 ms

md_stylechanger.js

md_stylechanger.js

280 ms

hide.js

hide.js

298 ms

Cookies_Pro.css

Cookies_Pro.css

297 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

15 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

298 ms

Cookies_Pro.js

Cookies_Pro.js

319 ms

element.js

element.js

119 ms

system.css

system.css

231 ms

bg2.png

bg2.png

89 ms

Historical_Logo-3.png

Historical_Logo-3.png

256 ms

UK-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary.gif

UK-Royal-Fleet-Auxiliary.gif

253 ms

karo.gif

karo.gif

90 ms

en.png

en.png

86 ms

fr.png

fr.png

83 ms

de.png

de.png

252 ms

it.png

it.png

251 ms

pt.png

pt.png

253 ms

ru.png

ru.png

252 ms

es.png

es.png

253 ms

gunline-spring-11.jpg

gunline-spring-11.jpg

292 ms

golda.jpg

golda.jpg

268 ms

h4h.jpg

h4h.jpg

254 ms

Bishopdale_August_1943.jpg

Bishopdale_August_1943.jpg

269 ms

plmedal.jpg

plmedal.jpg

269 ms

Ennerdale_Bombed_but_not_out.jpg

Ennerdale_Bombed_but_not_out.jpg

269 ms

arrow1.gif

arrow1.gif

204 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

204 ms

tabs_back.png

tabs_back.png

204 ms

TitilliumMaps29L002.otf

TitilliumMaps29L002.otf

218 ms

print.css

print.css

73 ms

Accessibility Review

historicalrfa.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

historicalrfa.org best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

historicalrfa.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Historicalrfa.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 Historicalrfa.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

historicalrfa.org

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