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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

prestonhistory.com

preston history – Articles, records and resources relating to the history of the Lancashire town of Preston

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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About Website

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Articles, records and resources relating to the history of the Lancashire town of Preston

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prestonhistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

prestonhistory.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

prestonhistory.com

30 ms

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31 ms

infinity.css

145 ms

style.css

158 ms

145 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Prestonhistory.com, 32% (47 requests) were made to Prestonhistory.files.wordpress.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (562 ms) belongs to the original domain Prestonhistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 299.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Prestonhistory.com main page is 4.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 291.4 kB

  • Original 382.8 kB
  • After minification 378.8 kB
  • After compression 91.4 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. 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 291.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB

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. Preston History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 69.0 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 291 B

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. Prestonhistory.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (26%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Preston 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

prestonhistory.com accessibility score

96

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

prestonhistory.com 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

prestonhistory.com SEO score

91

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

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 Prestonhistory.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 Prestonhistory.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

prestonhistory.com

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