Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com

Ancestry® | Family Tree, Genealogy & Family History Records

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 166 ms and then it took 1.3 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

worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.rootsweb.com

166 ms

layout.css

120 ms

clientlib-base.min.ACSHASH3c7cfee16e52a4e38ab8a0ca3579fd040a380d1775cc71374ac22b1dd845f175.css

89 ms

rwHome.css

119 ms

core.css

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com, 20% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Cmsasset.ancestrycdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (552 ms) relates to the external source Cmsasset.ancestrycdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

933.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 448.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 57.7 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 16.2 kB, which is 28% 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 48.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 908 B

  • Original 448.1 kB
  • After minification 447.2 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. Worldconnect Genealogy Rootsweb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 432.0 kB
  • After minification 431.1 kB
  • After compression 429.3 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 108.6 kB

  • Original 155.9 kB
  • After minification 154.6 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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. Worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (59%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Worldconnect Genealogy Rootsweb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.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 Worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Worldconnect Genealogy Rootsweb. 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: