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help.familysearch.org

Free Family History and Genealogy Records — FamilySearch.org

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

983 ms

Page Rendered

180 ms

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About Website

Visit help.familysearch.org now to see the best up-to-date Help Family Search content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about help.familysearch.org

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Key Findings

We analyzed Help.familysearch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

help.familysearch.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Help.familysearch.org, 8% (6 requests) were made to Pixel.everesttech.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Familysearch.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (250 ms) relates to the external source Edge.fscdn.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 863.9 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

557.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Help.familysearch.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 912.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 97.1 kB

  • Original 137.3 kB
  • After minification 128.1 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 97.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 162.1 kB
  • After minification 158.7 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. Help Family Search images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 598.5 kB

  • Original 912.3 kB
  • After minification 908.3 kB
  • After compression 313.8 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 598.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 164.8 kB

  • Original 209.5 kB
  • After minification 205.1 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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. Help.familysearch.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 164.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (62%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

23

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  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Help Family Search. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

help.familysearch.org SEO score

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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 Help.familysearch.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 Help.familysearch.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Help Family Search. 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: