Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gopherrecords.com

National Archives Digitizing, Civil War Ancestors, Civil War Records - GopherRecords.com

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

491 ms

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About Website

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We specialize in the retrieval and duplication of Civil War and other 19th-century military records from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), including service records, pensio...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gopherrecords.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gopherrecords.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gopherrecords.com

40 ms

gopherrecords.com

2358 ms

capture-code-public.css

20 ms

cleantalk-public.min.css

33 ms

find-hit-numbers-public.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (106 requests) were addressed to the original Gopherrecords.com, 10% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Gopherrecords.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gopherrecords.com 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 703.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 96.2 kB

  • Original 114.5 kB
  • After minification 112.1 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 96.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 703.8 kB
  • After minification 684.1 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. Gopher Records images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 325.2 kB
  • After minification 323.6 kB
  • After compression 283.2 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 42.0 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 227.6 kB
  • After minification 227.1 kB
  • After compression 214.7 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. Gopherrecords.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (80%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gopher Records. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gopherrecords.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

gopherrecords.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gopherrecords.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gopherrecords.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 Gopherrecords.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 data is detected on the main page of Gopher Records. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: