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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 44

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

policehistory.com

Garda Síochána Historical Society - PoliceHistory.com

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

Welcome to policehistory.com homepage info - get ready to check Police History best content right away, or after learning these important things about policehistory.com

Garda Síochána Historical Society, History of Ireland's National Police Force - www.PoliceHistory.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Policehistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

policehistory.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,970 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.43

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

policehistory.com

207 ms

nivo-slider.css

57 ms

style.css

122 ms

jquery-1.5.2.min.js

176 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Policehistory.com, 20% (13 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (686 ms) belongs to the original domain Policehistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 41.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

617.0 kB

After Optimization

575.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Policehistory.com main page is 617.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 317.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 17.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 317.3 kB
  • After minification 305.3 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. Police History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 214.4 kB
  • After minification 214.4 kB
  • After compression 203.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 260 B

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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. Policehistory.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (56%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Police 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

policehistory.com

policehistory.com

207 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

57 ms

style.css

style.css

122 ms

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176 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

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125 ms

brand

brand

7 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

15 ms

Police_History_s.gif

Police_History_s.gif

97 ms

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c-tl.gif

97 ms

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c-t.gif

97 ms

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118 ms

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117 ms

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119 ms

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686 ms

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223 ms

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229 ms

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176 ms

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175 ms

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226 ms

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233 ms

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234 ms

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502 ms

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558 ms

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505 ms

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560 ms

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505 ms

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558 ms

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558 ms

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558 ms

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558 ms

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559 ms

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560 ms

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24 ms

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155 ms

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476 ms

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39 ms

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553 ms

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552 ms

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461 ms

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32 ms

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68 ms

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4 ms

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285 ms

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13 ms

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29 ms

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244 ms

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Accessibility Review

policehistory.com accessibility score

44

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

policehistory.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

policehistory.com SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Policehistory.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 Policehistory.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

policehistory.com

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