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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

rootsy.com

News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

844 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rootsy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 318 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rootsy.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.aol.com

318 ms

application.css

18 ms

legacy_ads.css

32 ms

homepage-grid.css

88 ms

adsWrapper.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Rootsy.com, 17% (15 requests) were made to Xyz.aolcdn.com and 14% (13 requests) were made to Blogsmithmedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (563 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.taboola.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

891.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rootsy.com main page is 2.0 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. Javascripts take 646.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 437.9 kB

  • Original 503.1 kB
  • After minification 465.4 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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 437.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 593.4 kB
  • After minification 568.5 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. Rootsy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 425.6 kB

  • Original 646.0 kB
  • After minification 644.9 kB
  • After compression 220.4 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 425.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 214.1 kB

  • Original 251.2 kB
  • After minification 251.0 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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. Rootsy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 214.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (43%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rootsy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.aol.com

www.aol.com

318 ms

application.css

application.css

18 ms

legacy_ads.css

legacy_ads.css

32 ms

homepage-grid.css

homepage-grid.css

88 ms

adsWrapper.js

adsWrapper.js

33 ms

omniture.min.js

omniture.min.js

37 ms

jquery-1.12.0.min.js

jquery-1.12.0.min.js

39 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

32 ms

shared.js

shared.js

18 ms

aol-feedback-loader-latest.min.js

aol-feedback-loader-latest.min.js

299 ms

grid.min.js

grid.min.js

301 ms

hub-controller.js

hub-controller.js

17 ms

moatuac.js

moatuac.js

560 ms

loader.js

loader.js

563 ms

aol-logo-black.png

aol-logo-black.png

209 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

432 ms

aol-logo-white.svg

aol-logo-white.svg

428 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

435 ms

inside.png

inside.png

435 ms

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513 ms

loading-1.svg

loading-1.svg

424 ms

adpage.html

adpage.html

424 ms

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430 ms

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431 ms

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432 ms

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103 ms

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82 ms

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80 ms

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79 ms

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beacon.min.js

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71 ms

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55 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

35 ms

impl.201-1-RELEASE.js

impl.201-1-RELEASE.js

43 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

41 ms

recommendations

recommendations

166 ms

adServer.bs

adServer.bs

91 ms

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89 ms

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40 ms

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78 ms

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sn_sync.html

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slf.js

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14 ms

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25 ms

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Accessibility Review

rootsy.com accessibility score

92

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

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.

Best Practices

rootsy.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rootsy.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 Rootsy.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 Rootsy.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

rootsy.com

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