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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

fold3.com

Fold3 - Historical military records - Fold3

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

271 ms

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About Website

Welcome to fold3.com homepage info - get ready to check Fold3 best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about fold3.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 Fold3.com page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fold3.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.038

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fold3.com

136 ms

fold3.com

302 ms

fbase.css

122 ms

index-so.css

177 ms

modernizr2-custom.js

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Fold3.com, 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (583 ms) relates to the external source Go.fold3.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

999.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fold3.com main page is 1.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 899.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 15.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 899.7 kB
  • After minification 899.7 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. Fold3 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 64.7 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 135.1 kB
  • After compression 72.9 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 64.7 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 95.9 kB

  • Original 116.2 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. Fold3.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (36%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fold3. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fold3.com

fold3.com

136 ms

fold3.com

fold3.com

302 ms

fbase.css

fbase.css

122 ms

index-so.css

index-so.css

177 ms

modernizr2-custom.js

modernizr2-custom.js

236 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

64 ms

index-so.js

index-so.js

178 ms

nav.js

nav.js

178 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

40 ms

css

css

62 ms

HPSO_BH_ODP_2016.jpg

HPSO_BH_ODP_2016.jpg

465 ms

fng-sprite.png

fng-sprite.png

75 ms

so-memorials.png

so-memorials.png

361 ms

so-content.png

so-content.png

431 ms

hbg-signedout.jpg

hbg-signedout.jpg

583 ms

toadOcfmlt9b38dHJxOBGMw1o1eFRj7wYC6JbISqOjY.ttf

toadOcfmlt9b38dHJxOBGMw1o1eFRj7wYC6JbISqOjY.ttf

78 ms

ODelI1aHBYDBqgeIAH2zlNzbP97U9sKh0jjxbPbfOKg.ttf

ODelI1aHBYDBqgeIAH2zlNzbP97U9sKh0jjxbPbfOKg.ttf

91 ms

toadOcfmlt9b38dHJxOBGNNE-IuDiR70wI4zXaKqWCM.ttf

toadOcfmlt9b38dHJxOBGNNE-IuDiR70wI4zXaKqWCM.ttf

103 ms

toadOcfmlt9b38dHJxOBGLsbIrGiHa6JIepkyt5c0A0.ttf

toadOcfmlt9b38dHJxOBGLsbIrGiHa6JIepkyt5c0A0.ttf

119 ms

fold3wall-Regular.woff

fold3wall-Regular.woff

172 ms

so-conf-divider.svg

so-conf-divider.svg

101 ms

ga.js

ga.js

101 ms

utag.js

utag.js

333 ms

69 ms

74 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

utag.4.js

utag.4.js

5 ms

utag.8.js

utag.8.js

22 ms

pixel

pixel

44 ms

s83613991558086

s83613991558086

83 ms

Accessibility Review

fold3.com accessibility score

91

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 have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

fold3.com 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

fold3.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fold3.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 Fold3.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

fold3.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Fold3. 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: