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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

raahistory.com

Real African American Heroes

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

625 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Raahistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 4 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

raahistory.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

raahistory.com

2851 ms

iframe.html

25 ms

raa_logo.gif

187 ms

Newtextbox.jpg

371 ms

homer2.jpg

393 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Raahistory.com, 16% (8 requests) were made to Google.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Raahistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

841.2 kB

After Optimization

736.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Raahistory.com main page is 841.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 796.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 35.9 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 8.8 kB, which is 19% 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 35.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 69.4 kB

  • Original 796.2 kB
  • After minification 726.8 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. Raahistory images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Raahistory. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

raahistory.com

raahistory.com

2851 ms

iframe.html

iframe.html

25 ms

raa_logo.gif

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187 ms

Newtextbox.jpg

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371 ms

homer2.jpg

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393 ms

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302 ms

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29 ms

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11 ms

Accessibility Review

raahistory.com accessibility score

53

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 [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

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

raahistory.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

raahistory.com SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Raahistory.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 Raahistory.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

raahistory.com

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