Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

americancivilwar.com

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Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

473 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americancivilwar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 473 ms and then it took 11.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americancivilwar.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americancivilwar.com

473 ms

gpt.js

90 ms

jquery.min.js

121 ms

jass.head.js

88 ms

combine.webp

403 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Americancivilwar.com, 9% (13 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 7% (10 requests) were made to Images.taboola.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Contextual.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (59%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

869.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Americancivilwar.com main page is 2.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 512.8 kB

  • Original 642.0 kB
  • After minification 632.4 kB
  • After compression 129.1 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 512.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 372.7 kB
  • After minification 364.1 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. American Civil War images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 669.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 361.6 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 669.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. Americancivilwar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (71%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Civil War. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

americancivilwar.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

americancivilwar.com best practices score

50

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

americancivilwar.com SEO score

78

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americancivilwar.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 Americancivilwar.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 American Civil War. 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: