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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

history-in-pictures.co.uk

Old and Local Historic Pictures Around the UK - History in Pictures

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

159 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing History In Pictures content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about history-in-pictures.co.uk

History in Pictures is a database of 10,000+ images recording themed, social, and topographical street views and events of many British & Worldwide cities, towns and villages.

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Key Findings

We analyzed History-in-pictures.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 1.2 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

history-in-pictures.co.uk performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

history-in-pictures.co.uk

132 ms

index.php

310 ms

layout.css

34 ms

style.css

83 ms

lightbox.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original History-in-pictures.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (310 ms) belongs to the original domain History-in-pictures.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of History-in-pictures.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 38.3 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 5.2 kB, which is 14% 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 29.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. History In Pictures images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 436.2 kB
  • After minification 435.9 kB
  • After compression 379.9 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 56.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 8.1 kB
  • After minification 8.1 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. History-in-pictures.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (47%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History In Pictures. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

history-in-pictures.co.uk

history-in-pictures.co.uk

132 ms

index.php

index.php

310 ms

layout.css

layout.css

34 ms

style.css

style.css

83 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

75 ms

jquery-1.4.1.min.js

jquery-1.4.1.min.js

92 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js

113 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

108 ms

jslibrary.js

jslibrary.js

75 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

102 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

99 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

43 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

50 ms

api.js

api.js

62 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

60 ms

popup_style.css

popup_style.css

102 ms

functions.js

functions.js

126 ms

effects.js

effects.js

30 ms

builder.js

builder.js

25 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

all.js

all.js

60 ms

logo.png

logo.png

57 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

86 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

127 ms

ghost.jpg

ghost.jpg

57 ms

thumb_NN-0277.jpg

thumb_NN-0277.jpg

52 ms

submit-memoirs-button.jpg

submit-memoirs-button.jpg

53 ms

memoirs-button.jpg

memoirs-button.jpg

51 ms

trustpilot.png

trustpilot.png

53 ms

stamp.png

stamp.png

127 ms

Framed.jpg

Framed.jpg

127 ms

Canvas.jpg

Canvas.jpg

127 ms

mural_slideshow.jpg

mural_slideshow.jpg

172 ms

GreetingsCards1.jpg

GreetingsCards1.jpg

126 ms

NN-0080.jpg

NN-0080.jpg

141 ms

memopad.jpg

memopad.jpg

140 ms

Mounted.jpg

Mounted.jpg

168 ms

cardlogo.svg

cardlogo.svg

152 ms

close.png

close.png

149 ms

Artcraft.ttf

Artcraft.ttf

178 ms

all.js

all.js

15 ms

91 ms

fallback

fallback

37 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

47 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

8 ms

css

css

29 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

4 ms

Accessibility Review

history-in-pictures.co.uk accessibility score

67

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

history-in-pictures.co.uk best practices score

50

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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

history-in-pictures.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise History-in-pictures.co.uk 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 History-in-pictures.co.uk 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

history-in-pictures.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of History In Pictures. 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: