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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

genealogyforum.co.uk

UK Genealogy Forum - Discussion and help with family history research.

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

66 ms

About Website

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UK Genealogy Forum - a free and friendly UK web forum for the discussion of UK genealogy and related family history research. Photo gallery with 10,000 historic or family history related photos.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Genealogyforum.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 1.4 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

genealogyforum.co.uk performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

genealogyforum.co.uk

34 ms

www.genealogyforum.co.uk

437 ms

frontstyle.css

394 ms

adsbygoogle.js

111 ms

bg.jpg

391 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Genealogyforum.co.uk, 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 9% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (437 ms) belongs to the original domain Genealogyforum.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.5 kB (28%)

Content Size

123.4 kB

After Optimization

88.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Genealogyforum.co.uk main page is 123.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 118.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 2.4 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19 B

  • Original 430 B
  • After minification 411 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. Genealogy Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 118.3 kB
  • After compression 86.3 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 32.0 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 394 B
  • After minification 394 B
  • After compression 323 B

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. Genealogyforum.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71 B or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (44%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Genealogy Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

genealogyforum.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

genealogyforum.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

genealogyforum.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

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