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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

shop.mdhs.org

Museum Store at the Maryland Center for History and Culture - Maryland Center for History and Culture

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

422 ms

shop.mdhs.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Shop Mdhs content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shop.mdhs.org

A curated selection of the best Maryland gifts and history books, as well as exclusive items inspired by the MCHC collections of costumes, quilts, and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shop.mdhs.org page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shop.mdhs.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shop.mdhs.org

160 ms

shop.mdhistory.org

272 ms

css

47 ms

css

63 ms

bootstrap.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shop.mdhs.org, 77% (54 requests) were made to Cdn.shoplightspeed.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (303 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.shoplightspeed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

973.9 kB

After Optimization

919.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shop.mdhs.org main page is 973.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 802.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

  • Original 60.4 kB
  • After minification 45.6 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.7 kB, which is 24% 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 52.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 802.5 kB
  • After minification 802.5 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. Shop Mdhs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 104.7 kB
  • After compression 103.5 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 671 B

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Shop.mdhs.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 671 B or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (33%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shop Mdhs. 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 from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shop.mdhs.org

shop.mdhs.org

160 ms

shop.mdhistory.org

shop.mdhistory.org

272 ms

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css

47 ms

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css

63 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

54 ms

style.css

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73 ms

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77 ms

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gui-2-0.css

78 ms

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gui-responsive-2-0.css

94 ms

custom.css

custom.css

75 ms

tutorial.css

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96 ms

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91 ms

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110 ms

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91 ms

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94 ms

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135 ms

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132 ms

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35 ms

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12 ms

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131 ms

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102 ms

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117 ms

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107 ms

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27 ms

logo.png

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33 ms

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79 ms

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79 ms

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32 ms

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77 ms

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77 ms

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77 ms

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105 ms

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102 ms

Accessibility Review

shop.mdhs.org accessibility score

71

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.

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 valid value for its [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

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

shop.mdhs.org best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

shop.mdhs.org SEO score

99

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

    US

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shop.mdhs.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Shop.mdhs.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

shop.mdhs.org

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