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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thehistorypeople.org

History | St. Louis County Historical Society | United States

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

0 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing The History People content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thehistorypeople.org

Since 1922, the St. Louis County Historical Society has sought to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge about the County's history.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehistorypeople.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehistorypeople.org performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thehistorypeople.org

1158 ms

minified.js

36 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

31 ms

polyfill.min.js

29 ms

thunderbolt-commons.b70ee867.bundle.min.js

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thehistorypeople.org, 52% (13 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 36% (9 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehistorypeople.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 812.0 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

620.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thehistorypeople.org main page is 1.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 978.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 794.6 kB

  • Original 978.1 kB
  • After minification 976.3 kB
  • After compression 183.4 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 794.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 194.1 kB
  • After minification 181.0 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. The History People images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 260.4 kB
  • After minification 260.4 kB
  • After compression 256.2 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 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The History People. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thehistorypeople.org accessibility score

80

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

thehistorypeople.org 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thehistorypeople.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thehistorypeople.org 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 Thehistorypeople.org 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 data is detected on the main page of The History People. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: