Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

elthistory.com

ELT History

Page Load Speed

878 ms in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

544 ms

Page Rendered

79 ms

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About Website

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A chronology of the events in teaching, linguistics & language that have shaped the history of English Language Teaching (ELT, EFL, TESOL)

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elthistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 623 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

elthistory.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

elthistory.com

255 ms

masterStyle3.css

98 ms

functions.js

179 ms

logo-left2.gif

98 ms

spacer.gif

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Elthistory.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (255 ms) belongs to the original domain Elthistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.9 kB (54%)

Content Size

9.1 kB

After Optimization

4.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Elthistory.com main page is 9.1 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. HTML takes 6.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 4.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 93 B

  • Original 543 B
  • After minification 450 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. Obviously, ELT History needs image optimization as it can save up to 93 B or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 112 B

  • Original 429 B
  • After minification 429 B
  • After compression 317 B

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 112 B or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 576 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Elthistory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 576 B or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ELT History. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

elthistory.com accessibility score

61

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

Best Practices

elthistory.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

elthistory.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Elthistory.com 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 Elthistory.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 ELT History. 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: