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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

northcountryundergroundrailroad.com

North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association - Home

Page Load Speed

549 ms in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

383 ms

Page Rendered

100 ms

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About Website

Visit northcountryundergroundrailroad.com now to see the best up-to-date North Country Underground Railroad content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about northcountryundergroundrailroad.com

NCUGRHA researches, preserves and interprets the history of the Underground Railroad, slavery and abolition along the Upper Hudson River-Champlain Canal-Lake Champlain corridor of northeast New York.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 483 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northcountryundergroundrailroad.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northcountryundergroundrailroad.com

66 ms

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89 ms

rrstyles.css

21 ms

jquery-1.7.min.js

59 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (124 ms) belongs to the original domain Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

655.7 kB

After Optimization

595.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com main page is 655.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 548.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.9 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 16.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 548.1 kB
  • After minification 529.7 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. North Country Underground Railroad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 56.3 kB
  • After minification 56.3 kB
  • After compression 49.7 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 6.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 25.9 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (33%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Country Underground Railroad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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66 ms

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89 ms

rrstyles.css

rrstyles.css

21 ms

jquery-1.7.min.js

jquery-1.7.min.js

59 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

76 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.6.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.6.pack.js

77 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

77 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

76 ms

fancyboxes.js

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78 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

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82 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

83 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

124 ms

rrstylesHB.css

rrstylesHB.css

124 ms

logo_header.png

logo_header.png

24 ms

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79 ms

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61 ms

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59 ms

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23 ms

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24 ms

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44 ms

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43 ms

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44 ms

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64 ms

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97 ms

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97 ms

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75 ms

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94 ms

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79 ms

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94 ms

Accessibility Review

northcountryundergroundrailroad.com accessibility score

78

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

northcountryundergroundrailroad.com 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

SEO Factors

northcountryundergroundrailroad.com SEO score

67

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

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 Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com 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 Northcountryundergroundrailroad.com 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

northcountryundergroundrailroad.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of North Country Underground Railroad. 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: