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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

thehistoricjourney.org

The Historic Journey | The African American Experience

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thehistoricjourney.org homepage info - get ready to check The Historic Journey best content right away, or after learning these important things about thehistoricjourney.org

The Historic Journey is a series of lessons and teaching guides which illuminate the African and African American experience in America and the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehistoricjourney.org page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehistoricjourney.org performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehistoricjourney.org

182 ms

thehistoricjourney.org

2769 ms

style.css

198 ms

style-Light.css

247 ms

prettyPhoto.css

266 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Thehistoricjourney.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to S2member.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehistoricjourney.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.3 kB (30%)

Content Size

229.6 kB

After Optimization

160.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehistoricjourney.org main page is 229.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 114.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 39.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 114.3 kB
  • After minification 114.3 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 Historic Journey images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 43.9 kB
  • After minification 43.9 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 16.5 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 20.0 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Thehistoricjourney.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (72%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Historic Journey. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thehistoricjourney.org

thehistoricjourney.org

182 ms

thehistoricjourney.org

thehistoricjourney.org

2769 ms

style.css

style.css

198 ms

style-Light.css

style-Light.css

247 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

266 ms

wp-video-lightbox.css

wp-video-lightbox.css

246 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

336 ms

shortcodes-legacy.css

shortcodes-legacy.css

208 ms

s2member-o.php

s2member-o.php

353 ms

magnific_popup.css

magnific_popup.css

212 ms

page_templates.css

page_templates.css

210 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

401 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

278 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

342 ms

video-lightbox.js

video-lightbox.js

278 ms

et-customizer-global-17236319065288.min.css

et-customizer-global-17236319065288.min.css

340 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

282 ms

new-tab.js

new-tab.js

392 ms

common.js

common.js

393 ms

s2member-o.php

s2member-o.php

575 ms

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jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

392 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

393 ms

et-ptemplates-frontend.js

et-ptemplates-frontend.js

405 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

307 ms

s-badge.php

s-badge.php

99 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

71 ms

logo-e1321036692846.png

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75 ms

page-menu-bullet.png

page-menu-bullet.png

70 ms

cat-nav-left.png

cat-nav-left.png

114 ms

cat-nav-content.png

cat-nav-content.png

127 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

137 ms

divider.png

divider.png

138 ms

search.png

search.png

142 ms

search_btn.png

search_btn.png

182 ms

cat-nav-right.png

cat-nav-right.png

193 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

205 ms

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337 ms

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342 ms

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320 ms

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389 ms

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276 ms

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282 ms

content_bg.png

content_bg.png

348 ms

cat-first_bg.png

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351 ms

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388 ms

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English_thumb1.jpg

405 ms

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410 ms

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415 ms

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417 ms

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456 ms

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456 ms

Drew_Science_thumb.jpg

Drew_Science_thumb.jpg

474 ms

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478 ms

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Carver_S_Studies_thumb1.jpg

453 ms

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453 ms

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main_content_bg.png

495 ms

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494 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

rec_bg.png

rec_bg.png

507 ms

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501 ms

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14 ms

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490 ms

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485 ms

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526 ms

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521 ms

MBK-2016-Progress-Report.jpg

MBK-2016-Progress-Report.jpg

506 ms

content-bottom-bg.png

content-bottom-bg.png

490 ms

content-container-bg.png

content-container-bg.png

485 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

487 ms

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footer-bottom_bg.png

526 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

437 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

73 ms

featured-readmore-right.png

featured-readmore-right.png

71 ms

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featured-readmore-left.png

71 ms

top-overlay.png

top-overlay.png

70 ms

dropshadow.png

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71 ms

Accessibility Review

thehistoricjourney.org accessibility score

64

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

thehistoricjourney.org best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thehistoricjourney.org SEO score

67

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

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 Thehistoricjourney.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 Thehistoricjourney.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

thehistoricjourney.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Historic Journey. 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: