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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

villiscahistory.org

Villisca Historical Society, Inc. - Preserving the Unique History of the Community of Villisca, Iowa

Page Load Speed

332 ms in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

162 ms

Page Rendered

84 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Villisca History content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about villiscahistory.org

The home page for the Villisca Historical Society, Inc. Learn about our proud military heritage, the 1912 axe murders, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Villiscahistory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 246 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

villiscahistory.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

villiscahistory.org

86 ms

logo_vhs_large.jpg

35 ms

button_history.jpg

39 ms

button_people.jpg

32 ms

button_places.jpg

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Villiscahistory.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (86 ms) belongs to the original domain Villiscahistory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

71.6 kB

After Optimization

68.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Villiscahistory.org main page is 71.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 67.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.2 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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 3.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 212 B

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 66.9 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. Villisca History images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Villisca History. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

villiscahistory.org

villiscahistory.org

86 ms

logo_vhs_large.jpg

logo_vhs_large.jpg

35 ms

button_history.jpg

button_history.jpg

39 ms

button_people.jpg

button_people.jpg

32 ms

button_places.jpg

button_places.jpg

31 ms

button_archive.jpg

button_archive.jpg

43 ms

button_about.jpg

button_about.jpg

41 ms

button_news.jpg

button_news.jpg

44 ms

button_membership.jpg

button_membership.jpg

48 ms

button_links.jpg

button_links.jpg

49 ms

button_contact.jpg

button_contact.jpg

63 ms

Accessibility Review

villiscahistory.org accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

villiscahistory.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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

villiscahistory.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Villiscahistory.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Villiscahistory.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

villiscahistory.org

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