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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

lynchsferry.com

Lynch's Ferry Magazine | A Journal of Lynchburg History - Spring 2020

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

916 ms

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lynchsferry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lynchsferry.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lynchsferry.com

267 ms

stylesheet.php

202 ms

stylesheet.php

203 ms

stylesheet.php

202 ms

stylesheet.php

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Lynchsferry.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (267 ms) belongs to the original domain Lynchsferry.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

214.3 kB

After Optimization

199.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Lynchsferry.com main page is 214.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 197.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 1.7 kB, which is 11% 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 12.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 197.7 kB
  • After minification 195.9 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. Lynch S Ferry images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (47%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lynch S Ferry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lynchsferry.com

lynchsferry.com

267 ms

stylesheet.php

stylesheet.php

202 ms

stylesheet.php

stylesheet.php

203 ms

stylesheet.php

stylesheet.php

202 ms

stylesheet.php

stylesheet.php

202 ms

stylesheet.php

stylesheet.php

201 ms

stylesheet.php

stylesheet.php

202 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

137 ms

WestminsterC_Fall12.gif

WestminsterC_Fall12.gif

96 ms

L_MuseumRiverAd.png

L_MuseumRiverAd.png

94 ms

HighCotton

HighCotton

94 ms

Lynchburg_Rest_sixthpg.gif

Lynchburg_Rest_sixthpg.gif

94 ms

arrow-down.gif

arrow-down.gif

84 ms

arrow-right.gif

arrow-right.gif

134 ms

arrow-right-active.gif

arrow-right-active.gif

135 ms

dash.gif

dash.gif

135 ms

LF_sp20_cover_1.png

LF_sp20_cover_1.png

240 ms

LF_sp20_back_1.png

LF_sp20_back_1.png

233 ms

stylesheet.php

stylesheet.php

94 ms

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stylesheet.php

93 ms

Accessibility Review

lynchsferry.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lynchsferry.com 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

lynchsferry.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Lynchsferry.com 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 Lynchsferry.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

lynchsferry.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lynch S Ferry. 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: