Access southpolestation.com. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (Bill Spindler's Antarctica)

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

southpolestation.com

1141 ms

redirect.js

23 ms

spole00051.jpg

516 ms

2024marker4.jpg

33 ms

cmdlfullsize.jpg

622 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Southpolestation.com, 11% (1 request) were made to Detect.deviceatlas.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Usap.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Southpolestation.com.

Content Size

334.8 kB

After Optimization

313.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Southpolestation.com main page is 334.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 318.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

Original 16.1 kB
After minification 16.0 kB
After compression 6.6 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 9.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

Original 318.6 kB
After minification 307.0 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. South Pole Station images are well optimized though.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Pole Station. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

EN
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southpolestation.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 Southpolestation.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South Pole Station. 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: