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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

rootcentral.org

SCA | Middle Kingdom/Midrealm

Page Load Speed

11.1 sec in total

First Response

359 ms

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the Society of Creative Anachronism's Middle Kingdom website, a medieval recreation and education group. The Middle Kingdom is the third oldest kingdom in the SCA and covers Ohio, Indiana, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rootcentral.org page load time and found that the first response time was 359 ms and then it took 10.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rootcentral.org performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rootcentral.org

359 ms

style.css

65 ms

seneschalsm.png

29 ms

marshalsm.png

31 ms

heraldsm.png

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rootcentral.org, 90% (28 requests) were made to Midrealm.org and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) relates to the external source Midrealm.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

44.8 kB

After Optimization

21.9 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Rootcentral.org main page is 44.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 27.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 11.2 kB, which is 40% 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 22.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rootcentral. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

rootcentral.org

rootcentral.org

359 ms

style.css

style.css

65 ms

seneschalsm.png

seneschalsm.png

29 ms

marshalsm.png

marshalsm.png

31 ms

heraldsm.png

heraldsm.png

34 ms

chroniclersm.png

chroniclersm.png

38 ms

artscism.png

artscism.png

5037 ms

exchequersm.png

exchequersm.png

32 ms

chatelainesm.png

chatelainesm.png

47 ms

mocsm.png

mocsm.png

48 ms

webministesm.png

webministesm.png

49 ms

mail.gif

mail.gif

4999 ms

kwh_cover_for_web.jpg

kwh_cover_for_web.jpg

2988 ms

mm_logo_sm.png

mm_logo_sm.png

4997 ms

webminister.js

webminister.js

4994 ms

seneschalsm.png

seneschalsm.png

4565 ms

style.css

style.css

4477 ms

exchequersm.png

exchequersm.png

4363 ms

chroniclersm.png

chroniclersm.png

3443 ms

heraldsm.png

heraldsm.png

3680 ms

marshalsm.png

marshalsm.png

3716 ms

chatelainesm.png

chatelainesm.png

5264 ms

webministesm.png

webministesm.png

4173 ms

mocsm.png

mocsm.png

3875 ms

kwh_cover_for_web.jpg

kwh_cover_for_web.jpg

2927 ms

mm_logo_sm.png

mm_logo_sm.png

2669 ms

webminister.js

webminister.js

2714 ms

artscism.png

artscism.png

2554 ms

mail.gif

mail.gif

2478 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

rootcentral.org accessibility score

63

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

rootcentral.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rootcentral.org SEO score

69

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

rootcentral.org

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