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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

thehistoryofbyzantium.com

The History of Byzantium | A podcast telling the story of the Roman Empire from 476 AD to 1453

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

554 ms

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehistoryofbyzantium.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehistoryofbyzantium.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,600 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehistoryofbyzantium.com

57 ms

63 ms

css

98 ms

63 ms

global.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thehistoryofbyzantium.com, 30% (19 requests) were made to S0.wp.com and 25% (16 requests) were made to Thehistoryofbyzantium.files.wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (170 ms) relates to the external source Thehistoryofbyzantium.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehistoryofbyzantium.com main page is 3.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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 61.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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 History Of Byzantium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 220.1 kB

  • Original 313.4 kB
  • After minification 262.1 kB
  • After compression 93.3 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 220.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Thehistoryofbyzantium.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (55%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The History Of Byzantium. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thehistoryofbyzantium.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thehistoryofbyzantium.com 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

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

thehistoryofbyzantium.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thehistoryofbyzantium.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 Thehistoryofbyzantium.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

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