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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

minorplanetcenter.net

IAU Minor Planet Center

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

About Website

Visit minorplanetcenter.net now to see the best up-to-date Minor Planet Center content for Kazakhstan and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about minorplanetcenter.net

We are the official body that deals with astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Minorplanetcenter.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

minorplanetcenter.net performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

minorplanetcenter.net

1212 ms

mpc.css

18 ms

table-sorter.css

31 ms

all.css

33 ms

jquery-latest.js

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Minorplanetcenter.net, 14% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Minorplanetcenter.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 330.0 kB (72%)

Content Size

455.5 kB

After Optimization

125.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Minorplanetcenter.net main page is 455.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 357.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 4.9 kB, which is 23% 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 16.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 45.6 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. Obviously, Minor Planet Center needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.3 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 287.7 kB

  • Original 357.1 kB
  • After minification 198.3 kB
  • After compression 69.4 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 287.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Minorplanetcenter.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Minor Planet Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

minorplanetcenter.net accessibility score

48

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

minorplanetcenter.net best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

minorplanetcenter.net SEO score

54

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Minorplanetcenter.net 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 Minorplanetcenter.net 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Minor Planet Center. 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: