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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

mstation.org

Mstation.org has music, tech, culture, art, people! - a monthly zine

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

687 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

Visit mstation.org now to see the best up-to-date Mstation content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mstation.org

mstation.org is an e-zine that covers music, tech, culture, art, and hardware with generally Indie or Open Source attitudes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mstation.org page load time and found that the first response time was 687 ms and then it took 1.6 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

mstation.org performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.226

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mstation.org

687 ms

base.css

161 ms

show_ads.js

89 ms

branding.css

9 ms

mstat-logo.gif

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Mstation.org, 11% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (687 ms) belongs to the original domain Mstation.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

487.4 kB

After Optimization

444.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mstation.org main page is 487.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 455.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 22.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 455.6 kB
  • After minification 434.8 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. Mstation images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 152 B

  • Original 605 B
  • After minification 605 B
  • After compression 453 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. Mstation.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 152 B or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mstation. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

mstation.org

mstation.org

687 ms

base.css

base.css

161 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

89 ms

branding.css

branding.css

9 ms

mstat-logo.gif

mstat-logo.gif

95 ms

cover-christmas-tree.png

cover-christmas-tree.png

543 ms

cover-tearist.jpg

cover-tearist.jpg

232 ms

cover-juliaandben.jpg

cover-juliaandben.jpg

237 ms

cover-worldtronic.JPG

cover-worldtronic.JPG

236 ms

cover-christmas-stuff.jpg

cover-christmas-stuff.jpg

410 ms

cover-os2008he.jpg

cover-os2008he.jpg

168 ms

menu_books.jpg

menu_books.jpg

253 ms

menu_music.jpg

menu_music.jpg

362 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

362 ms

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

18 ms

branding.css

branding.css

24 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

244 ms

lines.jpg

lines.jpg

299 ms

menu-bg.jpg

menu-bg.jpg

88 ms

Accessibility Review

mstation.org accessibility score

69

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mstation.org 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mstation.org SEO score

69

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mstation.org 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 Mstation.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

mstation.org

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