Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

mohistory.org

Missouri Historical Society | Missouri Historical Society

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

mohistory.org screenshot

About Website

Visit mohistory.org now to see the best up-to-date Mohistory content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mohistory.org

MHS serves as the confluence of historical perspectives and contemporary issues to inspire and engage audiences in the St. Louis region and beyond.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mohistory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mohistory.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value45.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mohistory.org

2328 ms

css_615cd441dce7b8f3874247589a6736c3.css

173 ms

js_87a253da4f26e7b084e97a89fe2ada19.js

248 ms

mhmth.css

117 ms

js_4c8920dd7ec194ca53d7218307981eff.js

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Mohistory.org, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to A.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Mohistory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 275.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

795.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Mohistory.org main page is 1.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 699.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 24.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 699.7 kB
  • After minification 684.6 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. Mohistory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 141.7 kB

  • Original 226.6 kB
  • After minification 180.7 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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 141.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 94.5 kB

  • Original 113.0 kB
  • After minification 89.5 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Mohistory.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (46%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mohistory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mohistory.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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

mohistory.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mohistory.org SEO score

83

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 Mohistory.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 Mohistory.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Mohistory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: