Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

newspaperarchives.com

Genealogy, Family History & Ancestry Search | GenealogyBank

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

204 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

369 ms

newspaperarchives.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newspaperarchives.com page load time and found that the first response time was 204 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newspaperarchives.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,510 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.116

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newspaperarchives.com

204 ms

www.genealogybank.com

2206 ms

css_rEI_5cK_B9hB4So2yZUtr5weuEV3heuAllCDE6XsIkI.css

64 ms

css_vZ_wrMQ9Og-YPPxa1q4us3N7DsZMJa-14jShHgRoRNo.css

69 ms

css_PF2xPyWjKgGSXD_-k4lvyg-MpBGIVKGlGFmAAt5E684.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Newspaperarchives.com, 63% (35 requests) were made to Genealogybank.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Asrv.genealogybank.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Genealogybank.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 772.6 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

512.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Newspaperarchives.com main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 733.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 77.8 kB

  • Original 97.7 kB
  • After minification 88.9 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 77.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 285.7 kB
  • After minification 254.8 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, Newspaperarchives needs image optimization as it can save up to 30.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 527.6 kB

  • Original 733.2 kB
  • After minification 612.5 kB
  • After compression 205.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 527.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 136.3 kB

  • Original 168.8 kB
  • After minification 165.7 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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. Newspaperarchives.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (53%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Newspaperarchives. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

newspaperarchives.com accessibility score

95

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

newspaperarchives.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

newspaperarchives.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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