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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

maineroots.org

Maine Genealogical Society, Maine Vital Records and More

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

393 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

471 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Maine Roots content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about maineroots.org

The Maine Genealogical Society (MGS) is a non-profit charitable and educational organization. It was founded in 1976 to collect, exchange, preserve

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maineroots.org page load time and found that the first response time was 393 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

maineroots.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.236

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

maineroots.org

393 ms

hikashop.css

61 ms

frontend_default.css

99 ms

font-awesome.css

97 ms

content.min.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Maineroots.org, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (393 ms) belongs to the original domain Maineroots.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Maineroots.org main page is 3.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 67.2 kB
  • After minification 65.8 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 51.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Maine Roots images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 741.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 994.3 kB
  • After compression 292.3 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 741.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 552.3 kB

  • Original 636.2 kB
  • After minification 547.8 kB
  • After compression 83.9 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. Maineroots.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 552.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maine Roots. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

maineroots.org

maineroots.org

393 ms

hikashop.css

hikashop.css

61 ms

frontend_default.css

frontend_default.css

99 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

97 ms

content.min.css

content.min.css

67 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

145 ms

fontawesome.css

fontawesome.css

101 ms

template.css

template.css

91 ms

notify-metro.css

notify-metro.css

76 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

126 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

106 ms

hikashop.js

hikashop.js

123 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

108 ms

caption.js

caption.js

109 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

138 ms

core.js

core.js

124 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

211 ms

keepalive.js

keepalive.js

138 ms

floatingmoduleck.js

floatingmoduleck.js

140 ms

notify.min.js

notify.min.js

140 ms

notify.js

notify.js

204 ms

system.css

system.css

205 ms

general.css

general.css

205 ms

js

js

98 ms

template.css

template.css

206 ms

template.responsive.css

template.responsive.css

205 ms

css

css

37 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

263 ms

script.js

script.js

264 ms

script.responsive.js

script.responsive.js

206 ms

smartslider.min.css

smartslider.min.css

264 ms

css

css

49 ms

n2.min.js

n2.min.js

298 ms

smartslider-frontend.min.js

smartslider-frontend.min.js

297 ms

ss-simple.min.js

ss-simple.min.js

262 ms

w-arrow-image.min.js

w-arrow-image.min.js

263 ms

system.css

system.css

39 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

165 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

155 ms

logo-1177675521.png

logo-1177675521.png

156 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

154 ms

Rockland-Breakwater.jpeg

Rockland-Breakwater.jpeg

163 ms

1955-Parade.jpeg

1955-Parade.jpeg

192 ms

Mount-Katahdin.jpeg

Mount-Katahdin.jpeg

193 ms

Skowhegen-log-jam-Cheryl-Patten.jpeg

Skowhegen-log-jam-Cheryl-Patten.jpeg

193 ms

Maine-Potato-Fields.jpeg

Maine-Potato-Fields.jpeg

194 ms

Portland-Wharf.jpeg

Portland-Wharf.jpeg

207 ms

The-Jameson-children-Tolman-Cemtery-Rockland-died-1792.jpeg

The-Jameson-children-Tolman-Cemtery-Rockland-died-1792.jpeg

206 ms

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Capital-Building.jpeg

216 ms

Lewiston-Evening-Journal.jpeg

Lewiston-Evening-Journal.jpeg

217 ms

Portland-Head-Light.jpeg

Portland-Head-Light.jpeg

207 ms

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208 ms

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212 ms

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pixel.gif

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3 ms

Accessibility Review

maineroots.org accessibility score

82

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.

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

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

maineroots.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

maineroots.org SEO score

91

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

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 Maineroots.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 Maineroots.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

maineroots.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Maine Roots. 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: