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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

freedmen.umd.edu

Freedmen and Southern Society Project - Welcome Page

Page Load Speed

452 ms in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

326 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Freedmen Umd content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about freedmen.umd.edu

The Freedmen and Southern Society Project is producing a documentary history of emancipation during the American Civil War and Presidential Reconstruction, 1861-1867

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freedmen.umd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 326 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freedmen.umd.edu performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freedmen.umd.edu

126 ms

js

151 ms

mainpages.css

22 ms

Nast.jpg

146 ms

umdlogo.gif

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Freedmen.umd.edu, 11% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (151 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

295.9 kB

After Optimization

288.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freedmen.umd.edu main page is 295.9 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. Images take 285.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 7.4 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 4.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 19 B

  • Original 285.2 kB
  • After minification 285.2 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. Freedmen Umd images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 706 B

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. Freedmen.umd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Freedmen Umd. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

freedmen.umd.edu

freedmen.umd.edu

126 ms

js

js

151 ms

mainpages.css

mainpages.css

22 ms

Nast.jpg

Nast.jpg

146 ms

umdlogo.gif

umdlogo.gif

31 ms

NEHlogo--new.gif

NEHlogo--new.gif

30 ms

NHPRClogo--new.gif

NHPRClogo--new.gif

89 ms

edsitemt.gif

edsitemt.gif

29 ms

thlogo.png

thlogo.png

98 ms

Accessibility Review

freedmen.umd.edu accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

freedmen.umd.edu best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

freedmen.umd.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freedmen.umd.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Freedmen.umd.edu 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

freedmen.umd.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Freedmen Umd. 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: