Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

mybaseguide.com

Your Ultimate Guide to U.S Military Bases and News | MyBaseGuide

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

229 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mybaseguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Mybaseguide.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

mybaseguide.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mybaseguide.com

1475 ms

css

305 ms

lightTheme.css

176 ms

modernizr

203 ms

jquery

926 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Mybaseguide.com, 32% (39 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 10% (12 requests) were made to Mobile.mybaseguide.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source V3.marcoa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Mybaseguide.com 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 889.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 222.7 kB

  • Original 261.6 kB
  • After minification 205.9 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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 55.7 kB, which is 21% 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 222.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 889.0 kB
  • After minification 837.4 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. My Base Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 562.3 kB

  • Original 837.2 kB
  • After minification 831.1 kB
  • After compression 274.9 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 562.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 209.3 kB

  • Original 252.9 kB
  • After minification 250.9 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Mybaseguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 209.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (46%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Base Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mybaseguide.com accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

mybaseguide.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mybaseguide.com SEO score

74

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Mybaseguide.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 Mybaseguide.com 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 My Base Guide. 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: