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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

kentuckyancestors.org

Kentucky Ancestors Online | The Parents of John McClarty, aka John McBrown

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

418 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kentucky Ancestors content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kentuckyancestors.org

Kentucky Ancestors Online (a free publication of the Kentucky Historical Society) features a wide range of article topics and is designed to appeal to family historians of all levels.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kentuckyancestors.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 7.5 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

kentuckyancestors.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.405

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kentuckyancestors.org

1708 ms

analytics.js

22 ms

webfont.js

21 ms

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82 ms

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173 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Kentuckyancestors.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Kentuckyancestors.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kentuckyancestors.org main page is 5.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 90.6 kB

  • Original 108.9 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 90.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 269.7 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Kentucky Ancestors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 670.5 kB

  • Original 952.2 kB
  • After minification 920.2 kB
  • After compression 281.6 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 670.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 580.6 kB

  • Original 752.2 kB
  • After minification 705.0 kB
  • After compression 171.6 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. Kentuckyancestors.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 580.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (54%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kentucky Ancestors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

kentuckyancestors.org accessibility score

68

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

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

kentuckyancestors.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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

kentuckyancestors.org SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

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 Kentuckyancestors.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 Kentuckyancestors.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

kentuckyancestors.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kentucky Ancestors. 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: