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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ancestor.co.za

Ancestor.co.za - Family Tree and Genealogy search - Default

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

423 ms

Resources Loaded

672 ms

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ancestor.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Ancestor best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about ancestor.co.za

Search and download records for your South African ancestors. Create your family tree. Search death indexes for free. Download images of death notices - Default

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ancestor.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 423 ms and then it took 828 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ancestor.co.za performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ancestor.co.za

423 ms

gtm.js

105 ms

ancestor_swish_white.png

276 ms

dc.js

20 ms

analytics.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Ancestor.co.za, 25% (3 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 25% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) belongs to the original domain Ancestor.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

163.6 kB

After Optimization

91.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ancestor.co.za main page is 163.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 79.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 67.2 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 12.2 kB, which is 15% 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 66.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 10.1 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. Obviously, Ancestor needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 113 B

  • Original 68.7 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 68.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (45%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ancestor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ancestor.co.za

ancestor.co.za

423 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

105 ms

ancestor_swish_white.png

ancestor_swish_white.png

276 ms

dc.js

dc.js

20 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

93 ms

help.gif

help.gif

108 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

37 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

20 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

js

js

33 ms

Accessibility Review

ancestor.co.za accessibility score

82

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ancestor.co.za best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ancestor.co.za SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ancestor.co.za 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 Ancestor.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

ancestor.co.za

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