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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

hints.ancestry.com

Ancestry® | Family Tree, Genealogy & Family History Records

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hints.ancestry.com homepage info - get ready to check Hints Ancestry best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about hints.ancestry.com

Ancestry® helps you understand your genealogy. A family tree takes you back generations—the world's largest collection of online family history records makes it easy to trace your lineage.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hints.ancestry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hints.ancestry.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hints.ancestry.com

155 ms

login

335 ms

combo.ashx

137 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

165 ms

combo.ashx

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hints.ancestry.com, 51% (22 requests) were made to C.mfcreative.com and 14% (6 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (335 ms) relates to the external source Secure.ancestry.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.9 kB (58%)

Content Size

523.8 kB

After Optimization

219.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hints.ancestry.com main page is 523.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 368.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 22.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 452 B
  • After minification 447 B

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. Hints Ancestry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 182.3 kB

  • Original 368.6 kB
  • After minification 367.5 kB
  • After compression 186.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 182.3 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 125.2 kB
  • After minification 125.1 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. Hints.ancestry.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (85%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hints Ancestry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hints.ancestry.com

hints.ancestry.com

155 ms

login

login

335 ms

combo.ashx

combo.ashx

137 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

165 ms

combo.ashx

combo.ashx

153 ms

ResourceManager.js

ResourceManager.js

149 ms

AjaxManager.js

AjaxManager.js

149 ms

mbox.js

mbox.js

150 ms

formEx.js

formEx.js

149 ms

secure.css

secure.css

153 ms

home.css

home.css

195 ms

passwordToggle.js

passwordToggle.js

153 ms

header.js

header.js

151 ms

header.css

header.css

149 ms

v1.css

v1.css

152 ms

utag.js

utag.js

101 ms

ancestry-on-dark.svg

ancestry-on-dark.svg

64 ms

progen.svg

progen.svg

20 ms

bg-texture-3.png

bg-texture-3.png

35 ms

source-sans-pro.woff

source-sans-pro.woff

23 ms

source-sans-pro-light.woff

source-sans-pro-light.woff

13 ms

source-sans-pro-semi-bold.woff

source-sans-pro-semi-bold.woff

18 ms

source-sans-pro-bold.woff

source-sans-pro-bold.woff

28 ms

ancestry-icon.woff

ancestry-icon.woff

34 ms

combo.ashx

combo.ashx

29 ms

utag.24.js

utag.24.js

21 ms

utag.652.js

utag.652.js

48 ms

utag.370.js

utag.370.js

53 ms

utag.673.js

utag.673.js

63 ms

utag.696.js

utag.696.js

64 ms

combo.ashx

combo.ashx

51 ms

i.gif

i.gif

133 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

56 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

37 ms

js

js

35 ms

26 ms

i.js

i.js

115 ms

43 ms

51 ms

73 ms

js

js

61 ms

img

img

22 ms

r2

r2

6 ms

Accessibility Review

hints.ancestry.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hints.ancestry.com 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

hints.ancestry.com SEO score

90

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Hints.ancestry.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 Hints.ancestry.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

hints.ancestry.com

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