Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

firstworldwar.com

First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One

Page Load Speed

18.6 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

12.3 sec

Page Rendered

6.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstworldwar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 18.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstworldwar.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstworldwar.com

316 ms

main.css

539 ms

show_ads.js

535 ms

addthis_widget.js

474 ms

homebanner.jpg

895 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Firstworldwar.com, 15% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 473.0 kB (53%)

Content Size

885.9 kB

After Optimization

412.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Firstworldwar.com main page is 885.9 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. Javascripts take 731.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 25.6 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 19.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 117.6 kB
  • After minification 106.0 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. First World War images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 434.5 kB

  • Original 731.7 kB
  • After minification 731.6 kB
  • After compression 297.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 434.5 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 9.9 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Firstworldwar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (28%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First World War. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firstworldwar.com accessibility score

73

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

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

firstworldwar.com best practices score

62

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

SEO Factors

firstworldwar.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firstworldwar.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 Firstworldwar.com 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 First World War. 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: