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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

underthefreedomtree.com

"[An] immersive true story of courage and grit." Publishers Weekly | By Susan VanHecke • Illustrated by London Ladd

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

418 ms

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About Website

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Under the Freedom Tree tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War, the beginning of the end of slavery in America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Underthefreedomtree.com page load time and found that the first response time was 290 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

underthefreedomtree.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,610 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

underthefreedomtree.com

290 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

149 ms

main.css

179 ms

link-enhancer-common.js

21 ms

in.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Underthefreedomtree.com, 10% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Developers.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Underthefreedomtree.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 542.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 87.1 kB

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 105.8 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 87.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 533.3 kB
  • After minification 524.8 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. Underthefreedomtree images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 542.7 kB
  • After minification 538.4 kB
  • After compression 524.7 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.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 69.3 kB
  • After minification 69.3 kB
  • After compression 66.3 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. Underthefreedomtree.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (39%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Underthefreedomtree. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

underthefreedomtree.com

underthefreedomtree.com

290 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

ddsmoothmenu.css

149 ms

main.css

main.css

179 ms

link-enhancer-common.js

link-enhancer-common.js

21 ms

in.js

in.js

34 ms

pinit.js

pinit.js

21 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

ddsmoothmenu.js

177 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

27 ms

ga.js

ga.js

167 ms

517gNDCWUSL.jpg

517gNDCWUSL.jpg

166 ms

PinExt.png

PinExt.png

140 ms

main-bg.png

main-bg.png

300 ms

page-top.png

page-top.png

177 ms

page-bg.png

page-bg.png

362 ms

banner.jpeg

banner.jpeg

277 ms

sidebar.png

sidebar.png

221 ms

sidebar-top.png

sidebar-top.png

243 ms

jlg-logo_med.jpeg

jlg-logo_med.jpeg

284 ms

imageedit_1_8860472902_med.jpeg

imageedit_1_8860472902_med.jpeg

367 ms

usatoday-copy_med.jpeg

usatoday-copy_med.jpeg

352 ms

bullet2.png

bullet2.png

357 ms

sidebar-bottom.png

sidebar-bottom.png

359 ms

utftcover_med.jpeg

utftcover_med.jpeg

632 ms

ft_med.jpeg

ft_med.jpeg

633 ms

page-foot.png

page-foot.png

631 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

48 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

104 ms

down.gif

down.gif

567 ms

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ASpzqW3MzuY

215 ms

libelsuit-webfont.woff

libelsuit-webfont.woff

565 ms

pinit_main.js

pinit_main.js

76 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

39 ms

all.js

all.js

91 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

105 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

53 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

72 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

67 ms

all.js

all.js

48 ms

settings

settings

451 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

106 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

21 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

43 ms

base.js

base.js

98 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

1082 ms

2254111616-postmessagerelay.js

2254111616-postmessagerelay.js

257 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

12 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

164 ms

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112 ms

embed.js

embed.js

24 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

35 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

50 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

56 ms

id

id

19 ms

Create

Create

138 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

8 ms

embeds

embeds

118 ms

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

11 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

16 ms

Accessibility Review

underthefreedomtree.com accessibility score

92

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

underthefreedomtree.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

underthefreedomtree.com SEO score

96

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 Underthefreedomtree.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 Underthefreedomtree.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

underthefreedomtree.com

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