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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

podcast.history.org

Past & Present Podcasts : Colonial Williamsburg Official Site

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

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About Website

Welcome to podcast.history.org homepage info - get ready to check Podcast History best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about podcast.history.org

Colonial Williamsburg: Past and Present brings you new perspectives from the Revolutionary War era. American history is explored in interviews with historic interpreters, tradesmen, musicians, histori...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Podcast.history.org page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

podcast.history.org performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

podcast.history.org

58 ms

podcast.history.org

413 ms

gtm.js

103 ms

css

84 ms

foundationbar.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Podcast.history.org, 10% (6 requests) were made to History.org and 10% (6 requests) were made to Colonialwilliamsburg.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) belongs to the original domain Podcast.history.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

406.1 kB

After Optimization

346.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Podcast.history.org main page is 406.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 212.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 59.7 kB
  • After minification 53.6 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 48.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 109.1 kB
  • After minification 103.6 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. Podcast History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 212.3 kB
  • After minification 212.3 kB
  • After compression 207.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. Podcast.history.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (61%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Podcast History. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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58 ms

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www.colonialwilliamsburg.org

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149 ms

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Accessibility Review

podcast.history.org accessibility score

75

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

podcast.history.org best practices score

67

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

podcast.history.org SEO score

84

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

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 Podcast.history.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 Podcast.history.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

podcast.history.org

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