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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Mathews County Historical Society, Inc. - Home

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

590 ms

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About Website

Visit mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org now to see the best up-to-date Mathews County Historical Society content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org

The Source for Mathews County, Virginia History. The Mathews County Historical Society, established in 1964 and incorporated in 1970, is a 501(c)(3), non-profit, tax exempt organization.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.12

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org

50 ms

www.mathewshistory.org

247 ms

sites.css

23 ms

fancybox.css

32 ms

main_style.css

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org, 63% (30 requests) were made to Mathewshistory.org and 31% (15 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (539 ms) relates to the external source Mathewshistory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org main page is 2.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 88.8 kB

  • Original 108.8 kB
  • After minification 107.8 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. 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 88.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Mathews County Historical Society images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 768 B

  • Original 467.4 kB
  • After minification 467.4 kB
  • After compression 466.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 188 B

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (32%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mathews County Historical Society. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org

50 ms

www.mathewshistory.org

www.mathewshistory.org

247 ms

sites.css

sites.css

23 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

32 ms

main_style.css

main_style.css

131 ms

font.css

font.css

41 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

40 ms

templateArtifacts.js

templateArtifacts.js

115 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

40 ms

stl.js

stl.js

36 ms

main.js

main.js

42 ms

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5 ms

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6 ms

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7 ms

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5 ms

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10 ms

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background.gif

114 ms

header_background.gif

header_background.gif

124 ms

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105 ms

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201 ms

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183 ms

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173 ms

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219 ms

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220 ms

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227 ms

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329 ms

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354 ms

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70 ms

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regular.ttf

18 ms

383 ms

405 ms

tp2

tp2

118 ms

Accessibility Review

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org accessibility score

70

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.

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

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org SEO score

85

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

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

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 Mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.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 Mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.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

mathewscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Mathews County Historical Society. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: