Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

northstararchery.com

Welcome to NorthStar Archery - Your Premier Source for SCA Combat and Traditional Target Archery!

Page Load Speed

793 ms in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

541 ms

Page Rendered

118 ms

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About Website

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Northstar Archery is the oldest and most experienced resource for SCA combat arhcery rules and equipment. If you want to participate in combat archery in the SCA, Northstar is the only resource you wi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northstararchery.com page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 659 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northstararchery.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northstararchery.com

134 ms

northstararchery.com

194 ms

mouse_over.jpg

37 ms

stars_two.jpg

73 ms

stars_five.jpg

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Northstararchery.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (200 ms) belongs to the original domain Northstararchery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

214.8 kB

After Optimization

194.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Northstararchery.com main page is 214.8 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 191.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 22.1 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 18.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 189.8 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. North Star Archery images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Star Archery. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

northstararchery.com accessibility score

76

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

northstararchery.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

northstararchery.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northstararchery.com 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 Northstararchery.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 North Star Archery. 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: