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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

schenectadyhistory.org

Schenectady County, New York History and Genealogy

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

826 ms

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Schenectady History content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about schenectadyhistory.org

The Schenectady Digital History Archive is the local history and genealogy Web site of the Schenectady County Public Library, affiliated with the NYGenWeb, USGenWeb and American History and Genealogy ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Schenectadyhistory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 975 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

schenectadyhistory.org performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.264

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

schenectadyhistory.org

154 ms

schenectadyhistory.org

274 ms

basic-new.css

66 ms

advanced.css

129 ms

home.css

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Schenectadyhistory.org, 6% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (274 ms) belongs to the original domain Schenectadyhistory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.8 kB (46%)

Content Size

43.1 kB

After Optimization

23.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Schenectadyhistory.org main page is 43.1 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. HTML takes 21.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 15.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 324 B

  • Original 7.4 kB
  • After minification 7.0 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. Schenectady History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 1.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Schenectadyhistory.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (21%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Schenectady 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

schenectadyhistory.org

schenectadyhistory.org

154 ms

schenectadyhistory.org

schenectadyhistory.org

274 ms

basic-new.css

basic-new.css

66 ms

advanced.css

advanced.css

129 ms

home.css

home.css

182 ms

p7exp.js

p7exp.js

184 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

js

js

53 ms

counter_xhtml.js

counter_xhtml.js

40 ms

nylogo1b.jpg

nylogo1b.jpg

88 ms

usgenweba1tm.gif

usgenweba1tm.gif

89 ms

ahgp-med.gif

ahgp-med.gif

89 ms

sm2_alhn.jpg

sm2_alhn.jpg

186 ms

schen.gif

schen.gif

187 ms

t.php

t.php

136 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

133 ms

Accessibility Review

schenectadyhistory.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

schenectadyhistory.org best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

schenectadyhistory.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Schenectadyhistory.org 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 Schenectadyhistory.org 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

schenectadyhistory.org

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