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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

astronauticsnow.com

Mike Gruntman's web site on Astronautics, Space Technology, Rocketry, and History of Astronautics.

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

725 ms

Page Rendered

651 ms

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About Website

Visit astronauticsnow.com now to see the best up-to-date Astronautics Now content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about astronauticsnow.com

Astronautics. Space Science and Space Technology. Rocketry. Spacecraft and Space Mission Design. History of Rocketry and Spacecraft.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Astronauticsnow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

astronauticsnow.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

astronauticsnow.com

31 ms

mg01.css

3 ms

platform.js

88 ms

profile.js

87 ms

in.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Astronauticsnow.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (440 ms) relates to the external source Developers.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 277.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Astronauticsnow.com main page is 4.9 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 115.7 kB

  • Original 135.6 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 22.0 kB, which is 16% 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 115.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 160.8 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Astronautics Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 415 B

  • Original 323.2 kB
  • After minification 323.2 kB
  • After compression 322.8 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 101 B

  • Original 461 B
  • After minification 461 B
  • After compression 360 B

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. Astronauticsnow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 101 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (11%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

87

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Astronautics Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

astronauticsnow.com accessibility score

72

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

astronauticsnow.com best practices score

67

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

astronauticsnow.com SEO score

71

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 Astronauticsnow.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 Astronauticsnow.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

astronauticsnow.com

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