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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

historytoday.com

History Today | The World’s Leading Serious History Magazine

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

818 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing History Today content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about historytoday.com

History Today is the world’s leading serious history magazine. Read our monthly articles, features and reviews. Subscriptions to print, archive and digital available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Historytoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

historytoday.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.historytoday.com

30 ms

www.historytoday.com

819 ms

google_tag.script.js

256 ms

slick.css

274 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

270 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Historytoday.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Historytoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 324.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Historytoday.com main page is 2.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 51.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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 Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 164.3 kB

  • Original 390.3 kB
  • After minification 384.9 kB
  • After compression 226.1 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 164.3 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. Historytoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (77%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History 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 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 62 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.historytoday.com

www.historytoday.com

30 ms

www.historytoday.com

www.historytoday.com

819 ms

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Accessibility Review

historytoday.com accessibility score

81

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

[role] values are not valid

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

historytoday.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

historytoday.com SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Historytoday.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 Historytoday.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

historytoday.com

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