Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

footnote.com

Fold3 - Historical military records - Fold3

Page Load Speed

619 ms in total

First Response

28 ms

Resources Loaded

469 ms

Page Rendered

122 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Footnote content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about footnote.com

Discover original military records including personal documents, photos, and stories from brave men and women who served. Access sources from the US and UK national archives today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Footnote.com page load time and found that the first response time was 28 ms and then it took 591 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

footnote.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,140 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.352

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

footnote.com

28 ms

footnote.com

40 ms

www.fold3.com

143 ms

clientConfig.js

36 ms

fold3-base.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Footnote.com, 34% (12 requests) were made to Fold3.com and 34% (12 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (166 ms) relates to the external source Img.fold3.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.6 kB (51%)

Content Size

71.8 kB

After Optimization

35.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Footnote.com main page is 71.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 47.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 47.4 kB
  • After minification 47.3 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 35.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 954 B

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 23.5 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. Footnote images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (63%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Footnote. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

footnote.com accessibility score

90

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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>).

Best Practices

footnote.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

footnote.com 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Footnote.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 Footnote.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

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