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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mississippihistory.org

Mississippi Historical Society - Jackson, Mississippi

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

486 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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About Website

Visit mississippihistory.org now to see the best up-to-date Mississippi History content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mississippihistory.org

The Mississippi Historical Society is a nonprofit organization that works closely with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to promote understanding of the state's history.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mississippihistory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 486 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mississippihistory.org performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.35

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mississippihistory.org

486 ms

js

89 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

42 ms

align.module.css

81 ms

autocomplete-loading.module.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Mississippihistory.org, 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Mississippihistory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.6 MB (89%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

700.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mississippihistory.org main page is 6.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 24.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 5.5 MB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 531.8 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, Mississippi History needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.5 MB or 91% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 152.9 kB
  • After minification 152.9 kB
  • After compression 99.2 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 53.8 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 73.7 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Mississippihistory.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (83%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mississippi 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 52 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.mississippihistory.org

www.mississippihistory.org

486 ms

js

js

89 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

ajax-progress.module.css

42 ms

align.module.css

align.module.css

81 ms

autocomplete-loading.module.css

autocomplete-loading.module.css

125 ms

fieldgroup.module.css

fieldgroup.module.css

125 ms

container-inline.module.css

container-inline.module.css

126 ms

clearfix.module.css

clearfix.module.css

156 ms

details.module.css

details.module.css

182 ms

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hidden.module.css

183 ms

item-list.module.css

item-list.module.css

182 ms

js.module.css

js.module.css

183 ms

nowrap.module.css

nowrap.module.css

183 ms

position-container.module.css

position-container.module.css

185 ms

progress.module.css

progress.module.css

204 ms

reset-appearance.module.css

reset-appearance.module.css

206 ms

resize.module.css

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229 ms

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203 ms

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251 ms

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276 ms

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277 ms

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287 ms

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298 ms

details.css

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301 ms

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309 ms

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315 ms

form.css

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icons.css

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346 ms

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117 ms

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344 ms

links.css

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314 ms

menu.css

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analytics.js

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29 ms

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Accessibility Review

mississippihistory.org accessibility score

94

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

mississippihistory.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mississippihistory.org SEO score

86

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

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

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 Mississippihistory.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 Mississippihistory.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

mississippihistory.org

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