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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

theamericanhour.com

The American Hour | Americans living in the UK | Moving to the UK | American in Britain | American Expats | Americans in London | Living In the UK

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

361 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

298 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theamericanhour.com page load time and found that the first response time was 361 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theamericanhour.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theamericanhour.com

361 ms

theamericanhour.com

327 ms

www.theamericanhour.com

724 ms

js

70 ms

modernizr-custom.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Theamericanhour.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (928 ms) belongs to the original domain Theamericanhour.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 973.2 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

942.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theamericanhour.com main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 948.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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. 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 50.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 473.5 kB
  • After minification 469.2 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. The American Hour images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 589.5 kB

  • Original 948.9 kB
  • After minification 726.0 kB
  • After compression 359.4 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 589.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 329.1 kB

  • Original 425.4 kB
  • After minification 342.1 kB
  • After compression 96.3 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. Theamericanhour.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 329.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (67%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The American Hour. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theamericanhour.com

theamericanhour.com

361 ms

theamericanhour.com

theamericanhour.com

327 ms

www.theamericanhour.com

www.theamericanhour.com

724 ms

js

js

70 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

81 ms

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

19 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

23 ms

jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2-min.js

jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2-min.js

158 ms

jquery-ui-touch-punch.min.js

jquery-ui-touch-punch.min.js

237 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

311 ms

jquery.jqprint.0.3.1.js

jquery.jqprint.0.3.1.js

314 ms

grid.locale-en.js

grid.locale-en.js

317 ms

jquery.jqGrid.min.js

jquery.jqGrid.min.js

542 ms

members.js

members.js

394 ms

jquery.MetaData.js

jquery.MetaData.js

374 ms

jquery.rating.pack.js

jquery.rating.pack.js

389 ms

jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js

jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js

465 ms

_mootools.r782.js

_mootools.r782.js

472 ms

_mootools.bongo.js

_mootools.bongo.js

467 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

466 ms

clock.js

clock.js

472 ms

emailvalid.js

emailvalid.js

555 ms

conditionizr.min.js

conditionizr.min.js

556 ms

default.js

default.js

741 ms

transitions.debug.js

transitions.debug.js

703 ms

slider.js

slider.js

627 ms

xmlsupport.js

xmlsupport.js

618 ms

dstyles.js

dstyles.js

619 ms

ecommerce.js

ecommerce.js

621 ms

moment.js

moment.js

696 ms

jquery.json-2.4.min.js

jquery.json-2.4.min.js

696 ms

site-defaults.css

site-defaults.css

699 ms

shop-items.css

shop-items.css

706 ms

chunks.css

chunks.css

774 ms

bongomods-defaults.css

bongomods-defaults.css

925 ms

carousel-slider.css

carousel-slider.css

777 ms

box_defaults.css

box_defaults.css

779 ms

dstyles.css

dstyles.css

783 ms

widget50.css

widget50.css

928 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

855 ms

ui.jqgrid.css

ui.jqgrid.css

854 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

857 ms

gmi.css

gmi.css

771 ms

website.css

website.css

780 ms

DXR.axd

DXR.axd

718 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

629 ms

DXR.axd

DXR.axd

827 ms

Logo.png

Logo.png

228 ms

css

css

31 ms

Wht30.png

Wht30.png

78 ms

printchunk24x24.gif

printchunk24x24.gif

79 ms

1-1.jpg

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94 ms

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79 ms

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111 ms

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156 ms

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157 ms

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158 ms

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209 ms

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210 ms

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Lifestyle%20image%20purchased%20for%20website%202019.jpg

585 ms

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586 ms

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586 ms

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589 ms

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589 ms

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590 ms

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382 ms

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381 ms

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wave-bot.png

382 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

435 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

362 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

5 ms

Accessibility Review

theamericanhour.com accessibility score

75

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

theamericanhour.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

theamericanhour.com SEO score

85

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

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 Theamericanhour.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 Theamericanhour.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

theamericanhour.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The American Hour. 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: