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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

mitchellarchives.com

The Mitchell Archives - Original Historic Newspapers For Sale

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

187 ms

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About Website

Welcome to mitchellarchives.com homepage info - get ready to check Mitchell Archives best content right away, or after learning these important things about mitchellarchives.com

A unique selection of original historic newspapers spanning four centuries, including an unprecedented selection of some of the most important people and events

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mitchellarchives.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 4.1 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

mitchellarchives.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mitchellarchives.com

3429 ms

analytics.js

42 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

80 ms

style.min.css

209 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Mitchellarchives.com, 15% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Mitchellarchives.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

310.8 kB

After Optimization

229.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mitchellarchives.com main page is 310.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 130.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 19.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 105.2 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. Mitchell Archives images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 46.8 kB

  • Original 130.7 kB
  • After minification 130.7 kB
  • After compression 83.9 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 46.8 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 47.3 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. Mitchellarchives.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.3 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mitchell Archives. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mitchellarchives.com

mitchellarchives.com

3429 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

42 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

80 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

209 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

141 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

146 ms

styles.css

styles.css

145 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

201 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

217 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

215 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

239 ms

e-202240.js

e-202240.js

52 ms

collect

collect

57 ms

style.css

style.css

72 ms

youtube.jpg

youtube.jpg

242 ms

logo3.jpg

logo3.jpg

166 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

68 ms

rss.gif

rss.gif

67 ms

newheaderimage.jpg

newheaderimage.jpg

165 ms

potuselectheader.jpg

potuselectheader.jpg

241 ms

subhead1.jpg

subhead1.jpg

240 ms

biosubhead.jpg

biosubhead.jpg

264 ms

bg3.jpg

bg3.jpg

92 ms

header.gif

header.gif

90 ms

ga.js

ga.js

4 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

mitchellarchives.com accessibility score

45

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

mitchellarchives.com best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mitchellarchives.com SEO score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Mitchellarchives.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 Mitchellarchives.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

mitchellarchives.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mitchell Archives. 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: