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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

mcmurdostation.com

welcome to mcmurdostation.com (part of Bill Spindler's Antarctica)

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Mcmurdostation content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mcmurdostation.com

An unofficial historical website documenting the history, trivia, and future plans for McMurdo Station

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcmurdostation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mcmurdostation.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcmurdostation.com

1123 ms

Mcm00100.jpg

451 ms

mcmpan2a.jpg

242 ms

obhill72a0.jpg

655 ms

masterplan2.jpg

683 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Mcmurdostation.com, 7% (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 Mcmurdostation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

842.9 kB

After Optimization

826.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Mcmurdostation.com main page is 842.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 832.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 6.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 832.3 kB
  • After minification 821.9 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. Mcmurdostation images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • Images

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mcmurdostation. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

mcmurdostation.com

mcmurdostation.com

1123 ms

Mcm00100.jpg

Mcm00100.jpg

451 ms

mcmpan2a.jpg

mcmpan2a.jpg

242 ms

obhill72a0.jpg

obhill72a0.jpg

655 ms

masterplan2.jpg

masterplan2.jpg

683 ms

complete2.jpg

complete2.jpg

736 ms

13decview2.jpg

13decview2.jpg

777 ms

itc2march3.jpg

itc2march3.jpg

828 ms

futuretown3.jpg

futuretown3.jpg

874 ms

testbuild2.jpg

testbuild2.jpg

922 ms

itc2.jpg

itc2.jpg

946 ms

ssc2.jpg

ssc2.jpg

988 ms

21view2.jpg

21view2.jpg

1014 ms

plan1layout2.jpg

plan1layout2.jpg

1045 ms

Accessibility Review

mcmurdostation.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

mcmurdostation.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

mcmurdostation.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mcmurdostation.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 Mcmurdostation.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

mcmurdostation.com

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