Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

midwestgenealogycenter.org

Midwest Genealogy Center | Mid-Continent Public Library

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

485 ms

midwestgenealogycenter.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midwestgenealogycenter.org page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 1.8 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

midwestgenealogycenter.org performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

midwestgenealogycenter.org

112 ms

genealogy

184 ms

css_37d550f191cb166bc8f4bedc698fbc31.css

272 ms

js_1f74e19cef0ff3337354561ef636516c.js

365 ms

addthis_widget.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Midwestgenealogycenter.org, 67% (41 requests) were made to Mymcpl.org and 13% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (373 ms) relates to the external source Mymcpl.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 616.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Midwestgenealogycenter.org main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 115.1 kB
  • After minification 104.9 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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 87.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 202.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 852.0 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. Obviously, Midwest Genealogy Center needs image optimization as it can save up to 202.4 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 229.6 kB

  • Original 375.4 kB
  • After minification 375.4 kB
  • After compression 145.8 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 229.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 97.6 kB

  • Original 119.1 kB
  • After minification 114.6 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. Midwestgenealogycenter.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 97.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (32%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Midwest Genealogy Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

midwestgenealogycenter.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

midwestgenealogycenter.org best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

midwestgenealogycenter.org SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Midwest Genealogy Center. 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: