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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

warletters.com

The Center for American War Letters | Legacy Project | Chapman University

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

265 ms

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About Website

Visit warletters.com now to see the best up-to-date War Letters content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about warletters.com

The Center for American War Letters at Chapman University houses more than 90,000 letters from soldiers and their families spanning 230 years and dozens of wars and conflicts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Warletters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

warletters.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,930 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.305

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

warletters.com

57 ms

index.aspx

682 ms

ac9c1b4f-4eee-463d-84f3-d8dc59f7a52a.js

298 ms

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61 ms

eyn5jyy.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Warletters.com, 38% (15 requests) were made to Chapman.edu and 15% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (770 ms) relates to the external source Chapman.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Warletters.com main page is 1.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 511.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 270.8 kB

  • Original 305.0 kB
  • After minification 137.7 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 167.3 kB, which is 55% 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 270.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 511.8 kB
  • After minification 485.6 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. War Letters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 479.3 kB
  • After minification 479.3 kB
  • After compression 445.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 245.0 kB
  • After minification 245.0 kB
  • After compression 240.3 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. Warletters.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (51%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of War Letters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

warletters.com

warletters.com

57 ms

index.aspx

index.aspx

682 ms

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ac9c1b4f-4eee-463d-84f3-d8dc59f7a52a.js

298 ms

2c8f9c2a9ace49dda0e5e9cdc00d62bc.js.ubembed.com

2c8f9c2a9ace49dda0e5e9cdc00d62bc.js.ubembed.com

61 ms

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54 ms

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150 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

59 ms

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363 ms

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430 ms

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292 ms

cse.js

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53 ms

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71 ms

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22 ms

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25 ms

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38 ms

gtm.js

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400 ms

all.js

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338 ms

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368 ms

letter-slider.jpg

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572 ms

warletters-pbs.jpg

warletters-pbs.jpg

370 ms

warletters-book.jpg

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370 ms

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570 ms

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570 ms

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570 ms

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767 ms

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769 ms

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770 ms

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768 ms

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215 ms

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331 ms

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335 ms

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120 ms

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158 ms

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146 ms

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82 ms

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82 ms

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83 ms

Accessibility Review

warletters.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

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>).

High

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

warletters.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

warletters.com SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Warletters.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 Warletters.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

warletters.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of War Letters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: