Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

history.hanover.edu

Welcome to the History Department : History Department : Hanover College

Page Load Speed

35.1 sec in total

First Response

14.8 sec

Resources Loaded

19.4 sec

Page Rendered

861 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed History.hanover.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 14.8 sec and then it took 20.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

history.hanover.edu performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

history.hanover.edu

14786 ms

history.hanover.edu

819 ms

js.js

1050 ms

template.css

1093 ms

template.js

1139 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original History.hanover.edu, 24% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 16% (6 requests) were made to Websites.hanover.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (14.8 sec) belongs to the original domain History.hanover.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (16%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

7.7 MB

In fact, the total size of History.hanover.edu main page is 9.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 13.0 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 8.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 9.0 MB
  • After minification 7.6 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, History Hanover needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 76 B

  • Original 53.5 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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. History.hanover.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (54%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History Hanover. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

history.hanover.edu accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

history.hanover.edu 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

SEO Factors

history.hanover.edu SEO score

74

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

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 doesn't use 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 History.hanover.edu 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 History.hanover.edu 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 description is not detected on the main page of History Hanover. 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: