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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

soldiersweekend.com

Historic Soldiers Weekend | Where Military History Lives

Page Load Speed

836 ms in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

545 ms

Page Rendered

187 ms

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About Website

Welcome to soldiersweekend.com homepage info - get ready to check Soldiers Weekend best content right away, or after learning these important things about soldiersweekend.com

Historic Soldiers Weekend is a historical encampment, featuring re-enactors and their equipment from every American conflict.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soldiersweekend.com page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 732 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soldiersweekend.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soldiersweekend.com

104 ms

style.css

30 ms

folks.css

45 ms

jquery-1.5.min.js

69 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Soldiersweekend.com, 21% (8 requests) were made to Historicsoldiersweekend.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (249 ms) relates to the external source S7.addthis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soldiersweekend.com main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 14.4 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 3.1 kB, which is 22% 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 11.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 81.8 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Soldiers Weekend images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 110.5 kB
  • After minification 108.6 kB
  • After compression 43.7 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 66.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Soldiersweekend.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (12%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soldiers Weekend. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

soldiersweekend.com

soldiersweekend.com

104 ms

style.css

style.css

30 ms

folks.css

folks.css

45 ms

jquery-1.5.min.js

jquery-1.5.min.js

69 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

50 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

ddsmoothmenu.js

51 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

46 ms

jquery.jcarousel.js

jquery.jcarousel.js

58 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

249 ms

background1.png

background1.png

89 ms

01.jpg

01.jpg

111 ms

05.jpg

05.jpg

102 ms

02.jpg

02.jpg

107 ms

05.jpg

05.jpg

93 ms

09.jpg

09.jpg

74 ms

24.jpg

24.jpg

93 ms

18.jpg

18.jpg

95 ms

36.jpg

36.jpg

101 ms

star_bg2.jpg

star_bg2.jpg

47 ms

hsw_logo_400x160.png

hsw_logo_400x160.png

31 ms

banner_2024.png

banner_2024.png

89 ms

02.jpg

02.jpg

57 ms

03.jpg

03.jpg

72 ms

04.jpg

04.jpg

71 ms

05.jpg

05.jpg

99 ms

slider-arrows.jpg

slider-arrows.jpg

70 ms

20th.png

20th.png

110 ms

hsw_211x120.jpg

hsw_211x120.jpg

100 ms

button-light-blue.png

button-light-blue.png

91 ms

registration_211x120.jpg

registration_211x120.jpg

98 ms

ft_mott_211x120.jpg

ft_mott_211x120.jpg

114 ms

shim.gif

shim.gif

115 ms

footer-bg7.png

footer-bg7.png

120 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

120 ms

blog-arrows.jpg

blog-arrows.jpg

122 ms

Folks-Normal-webfont.woff

Folks-Normal-webfont.woff

135 ms

puritan_italic-webfont.woff

puritan_italic-webfont.woff

142 ms

puritan_regular-webfont.woff

puritan_regular-webfont.woff

141 ms

Accessibility Review

soldiersweekend.com accessibility score

63

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

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

soldiersweekend.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

SEO Factors

soldiersweekend.com SEO score

58

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

soldiersweekend.com

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