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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

help.findmypast.co.uk

Help and Frequently Asked Questions | findmypast.co.uk

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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About Website

Visit help.findmypast.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Help Findmypast content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about help.findmypast.co.uk

Findmypast help centre can support with your account, using the site and finding genealogy resources with step-by-step guides and frequently asked questions

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Key Findings

We analyzed Help.findmypast.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

help.findmypast.co.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,540 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

help.findmypast.co.uk

212 ms

help

765 ms

ueu8cey.css

74 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

47 ms

router.b8ff07b1a306ea58dcaa.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Help.findmypast.co.uk, 71% (35 requests) were made to D3nd02ak4v4ued.cloudfront.net and 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (765 ms) relates to the external source Findmypast.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 579.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Help.findmypast.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 189.5 kB

  • Original 226.1 kB
  • After minification 226.1 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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 189.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 147.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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, Help Findmypast needs image optimization as it can save up to 147.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 242.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 242.3 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 205 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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.findmypast.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (72%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Help Findmypast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

help.findmypast.co.uk

help.findmypast.co.uk

212 ms

help

help

765 ms

ueu8cey.css

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74 ms

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47 ms

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46 ms

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Accessibility Review

help.findmypast.co.uk accessibility score

83

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

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

help.findmypast.co.uk 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

help.findmypast.co.uk SEO score

89

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

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 Help.findmypast.co.uk 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.findmypast.co.uk 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

help.findmypast.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Help Findmypast. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: