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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

antarcticfire.org

Antarctic Fire Department: Supporting Science On The Harshest Continent On Earth

Page Load Speed

877 ms in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

664 ms

Page Rendered

90 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Antarctic Fire content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about antarcticfire.org

The Antarctic Fire Department is proudly supporting the advancement of world science through fire/rescue support services on the highest, driest, windiest, coldest, and ultimately harshest continent o...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Antarcticfire.org page load time and found that the first response time was 123 ms and then it took 754 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

antarcticfire.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

antarcticfire.org

123 ms

style.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.cycle.min.js

45 ms

scripting.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Antarcticfire.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (494 ms) relates to the external source W.bookcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

166.5 kB

After Optimization

107.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Antarcticfire.org main page is 166.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 95.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 9.8 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. 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 7.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 56.2 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. Antarctic Fire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 95.3 kB
  • After minification 95.3 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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 48.1 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 655 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Antarcticfire.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 655 B or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (36%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Antarctic Fire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

antarcticfire.org

antarcticfire.org

123 ms

style.css

style.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.cycle.min.js

jquery.cycle.min.js

45 ms

scripting.js

scripting.js

47 ms

ga.js

ga.js

33 ms

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25_w79395_0_1_3498db_250_2980b9_ffffff_ffffff_1_2071c9_ffffff_0_3.png

494 ms

dpbgb.gif

dpbgb.gif

28 ms

ra_discovery_left.gif

ra_discovery_left.gif

28 ms

ra_c-17_01.gif

ra_c-17_01.gif

28 ms

ra_hagglund_01.gif

ra_hagglund_01.gif

49 ms

ra_treatyflags.gif

ra_treatyflags.gif

51 ms

ra_discovery_center.gif

ra_discovery_center.gif

75 ms

ra_discovery_right.gif

ra_discovery_right.gif

52 ms

ra_red_tower.gif

ra_red_tower.gif

51 ms

ra_bell_01.gif

ra_bell_01.gif

52 ms

ra_skua.gif

ra_skua.gif

72 ms

support_left.gif

support_left.gif

73 ms

support_center.gif

support_center.gif

73 ms

support_right.gif

support_right.gif

74 ms

logo_nsf.png

logo_nsf.png

76 ms

logo_usap.png

logo_usap.png

95 ms

antarctica_fire_department_engine_2.jpg

antarctica_fire_department_engine_2.jpg

97 ms

antarctic_fire_department_arff_red_4_snow.jpg

antarctic_fire_department_arff_red_4_snow.jpg

118 ms

corner_gray1.gif

corner_gray1.gif

96 ms

bg_gray.gif

bg_gray.gif

97 ms

corner_gray2.gif

corner_gray2.gif

99 ms

corner_white.gif

corner_white.gif

117 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

antarcticfire.org accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

antarcticfire.org 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

SEO Factors

antarcticfire.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

antarcticfire.org

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