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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

thefoodhistorian.com

THE FOOD HISTORIAN - Home

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

910 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing THE FOOD HISTORIAN content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thefoodhistorian.com

Sarah Wassberg Johnson is The Food Historian, an academic and public historian focusing on the intersection of food, history, and culture in America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefoodhistorian.com page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 4.2 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

thefoodhistorian.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.13

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefoodhistorian.com

121 ms

www.thefoodhistorian.com

146 ms

www.thefoodhistorian.com

239 ms

js

89 ms

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262 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Thefoodhistorian.com, 20% (33 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 7% (12 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thefoodhistorian.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (7%)

Content Size

16.9 MB

After Optimization

15.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefoodhistorian.com main page is 16.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 15.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 152.5 kB

  • Original 199.9 kB
  • After minification 197.4 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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 152.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 803.4 kB

  • Original 15.4 MB
  • After minification 14.5 MB

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. THE FOOD HISTORIAN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 84.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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

-55%

Potential reduce by 64.1 kB

  • Original 116.7 kB
  • After minification 116.5 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. Thefoodhistorian.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (47%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of THE FOOD HISTORIAN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thefoodhistorian.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

thefoodhistorian.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thefoodhistorian.com SEO score

82

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thefoodhistorian.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 Thefoodhistorian.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

thefoodhistorian.com

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