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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

historyandpolicy.org

History and Policy | Connecting historians, policymakers and the media

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

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About Website

Welcome to historyandpolicy.org homepage info - get ready to check History And Policy best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about historyandpolicy.org

H&P is a unique collaboration between Kings College London and the University of Cambridge. A network of 500+ historians who engage with policy makers and the media.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Historyandpolicy.org page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

historyandpolicy.org performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

historyandpolicy.org

273 ms

historyandpolicy.org

810 ms

bootstrap.min.css

630 ms

font-awesome.min.css

323 ms

styles.css

320 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Historyandpolicy.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Historyandpolicy.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 946.6 kB (21%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Historyandpolicy.org main page is 4.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 23.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 615.5 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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 And Policy needs image optimization as it can save up to 615.5 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 158.7 kB

  • Original 236.8 kB
  • After minification 231.0 kB
  • After compression 78.1 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 158.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 149.1 kB

  • Original 181.3 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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. Historyandpolicy.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (19%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History And Policy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

historyandpolicy.org

historyandpolicy.org

273 ms

historyandpolicy.org

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810 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

630 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

323 ms

styles.css

styles.css

320 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

38 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

18 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

250 ms

jquery.countTo.js

jquery.countTo.js

242 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

118 ms

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492 ms

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491 ms

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495 ms

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240 ms

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214 ms

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82 ms

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83 ms

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82 ms

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163 ms

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165 ms

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207 ms

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565 ms

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12 ms

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703 ms

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1677 ms

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1322 ms

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1203 ms

Accessibility Review

historyandpolicy.org accessibility score

76

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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 IDs are not unique

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

historyandpolicy.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

historyandpolicy.org SEO score

81

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

historyandpolicy.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of History And Policy. 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: