Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

dodstarbase.org

DoD Starbase | Department of Defense Youth Programs

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

656 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dodstarbase.org page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1.8 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

dodstarbase.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.392

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dodstarbase.org

38 ms

dodstarbase.org

342 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

100 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

94 ms

icons.min.css

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Dodstarbase.org, 52% (56 requests) were made to 149397763.v2.pressablecdn.com and 18% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (641 ms) relates to the external source 149397763.v2.pressablecdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Dodstarbase.org main page is 2.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 245.3 kB

  • Original 290.1 kB
  • After minification 284.4 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. 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 245.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. DoD Starbase images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 414.0 kB
  • After minification 414.0 kB
  • After compression 378.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 123.8 kB
  • After minification 123.8 kB
  • After compression 109.6 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. Dodstarbase.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (78%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DoD Starbase. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dodstarbase.org accessibility score

89

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

dodstarbase.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dodstarbase.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Dodstarbase.org 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 Dodstarbase.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of DoD Starbase. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: