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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

postalhistory.com

Jim Forte Postal History

Page Load Speed

650 ms in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

359 ms

Page Rendered

195 ms

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About Website

Welcome to postalhistory.com homepage info - get ready to check Postal History best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about postalhistory.com

Postalhistory.com is resource for collectors of United States and worldwide covers and postal history. The site offers over 200.000 covers for sale. The focus is on U.S. town cancels, U.S. 20th centur...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Postalhistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 554 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

postalhistory.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

postalhistory.com

96 ms

www.postalhistory.com

158 ms

style2.css

23 ms

element.js

26 ms

layout.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Postalhistory.com, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (158 ms) belongs to the original domain Postalhistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

123.2 kB

After Optimization

91.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Postalhistory.com main page is 123.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 64.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 28.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 64.9 kB
  • After minification 62.9 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. Postal History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 633 B

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. Postalhistory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Postal History. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

postalhistory.com

postalhistory.com

96 ms

www.postalhistory.com

www.postalhistory.com

158 ms

style2.css

style2.css

23 ms

element.js

element.js

26 ms

layout.css

layout.css

12 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

Banner.jpg

Banner.jpg

13 ms

Cameroun.jpg

Cameroun.jpg

23 ms

Saar.jpg

Saar.jpg

26 ms

GK310410.jpg

GK310410.jpg

23 ms

CZE2042C3.jpg

CZE2042C3.jpg

54 ms

cards_color.jpg

cards_color.jpg

54 ms

jcb.jpg

jcb.jpg

53 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

postalhistory.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

postalhistory.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

postalhistory.com SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Postalhistory.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Postalhistory.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

postalhistory.com

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