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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

historyguy.com

The History Guy: War and Conflicts News |

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

342 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

399 ms

historyguy.com screenshot

About Website

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

The History Guy: War and Conflict News, past and current wars and conflicts from around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Historyguy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 342 ms and then it took 2.7 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

historyguy.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

historyguy.com

342 ms

style.min.css

138 ms

style.min.css

249 ms

css

24 ms

jquery.min.js

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Historyguy.com, 15% (9 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 11% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (753 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 561.1 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Historyguy.com main page is 2.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 100.0 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. 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 80.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 456.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 697.6 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, History Guy needs image optimization as it can save up to 456.7 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 685.4 kB
  • After minification 685.4 kB
  • After compression 670.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 89.2 kB
  • After compression 79.9 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. Historyguy.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (63%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History Guy. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

historyguy.com

historyguy.com

342 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

138 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

249 ms

css

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24 ms

jquery.min.js

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257 ms

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jquery-migrate.min.js

194 ms

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79 ms

adsbygoogle.js

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161 ms

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95 ms

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146 ms

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145 ms

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191 ms

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312 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

312 ms

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313 ms

drop-downs.min.js

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382 ms

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gtm.js

168 ms

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188 ms

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159 ms

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220 ms

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720 ms

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216 ms

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154 ms

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60 ms

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8 ms

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77 ms

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41 ms

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57 ms

base.js

base.js

91 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

238 ms

ads

ads

620 ms

ads

ads

437 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

176 ms

ads

ads

753 ms

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106 ms

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35 ms

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19 ms

Create

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95 ms

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146 ms

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76 ms

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50 ms

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ads

405 ms

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238 ms

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234 ms

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150 ms

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143 ms

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30 ms

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141 ms

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37 ms

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19 ms

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141 ms

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136 ms

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142 ms

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133 ms

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140 ms

css

css

28 ms

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4 ms

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4 ms

Accessibility Review

historyguy.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

historyguy.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

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

historyguy.com SEO score

94

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 Historyguy.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 Historyguy.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of History Guy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: