Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

iagenweb.org

The IAGenWeb Project - Iowa Genealogy

Page Load Speed

256 ms in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

111 ms

Page Rendered

127 ms

iagenweb.org screenshot

About Website

Visit iagenweb.org now to see the best up-to-date Ia Gen Web content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about iagenweb.org

The IAGenWeb Project provides links to Iowa genealogical resources, queries and research databases. Emphasis is on research at the county level. All contributions are the work of volunteers like you. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iagenweb.org page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 238 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iagenweb.org performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iagenweb.org

18 ms

_iastyle.css

7 ms

ga.js

30 ms

spacer.gif

12 ms

Title-L.gif

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Iagenweb.org, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (53 ms) belongs to the original domain Iagenweb.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

127.5 kB

After Optimization

108.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Iagenweb.org main page is 127.5 kB. 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 85.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 16.7 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.6 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 714 B

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 84.9 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. Ia Gen Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Iagenweb.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (25%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ia Gen Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

iagenweb.org accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

iagenweb.org best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

iagenweb.org SEO score

54

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iagenweb.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 Iagenweb.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ia Gen Web. 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: