Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org

Watertown Area Historical Society (WAHS), Watertown MN

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

565 ms

Page Rendered

623 ms

watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Watertown MN Historical Society content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org

The story of the Watertown, Minnesota area as collected and preserved by the Watertown Area Historical Society.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org

197 ms

wahsstyles.css

117 ms

analytics.js

9 ms

parchment.png

71 ms

wahsmasterlogo.png

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org, 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (294 ms) belongs to the original domain Watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 140.5 kB (68%)

Content Size

205.2 kB

After Optimization

64.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org main page is 205.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 152.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 108.5 kB

  • Original 152.3 kB
  • After minification 43.7 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. Obviously, Watertown MN Historical Society needs image optimization as it can save up to 108.5 kB or 71% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Watertown MN Historical Society. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

watertownmnhistoricalsociety.org accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

watertownmnhistoricalsociety.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

SEO Factors

watertownmnhistoricalsociety.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 Watertownmnhistoricalsociety.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 Watertownmnhistoricalsociety.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Watertown MN Historical Society. 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: