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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

polarrace.com

Polar Race 2007 in Barefoot Shoes - The Race to the Magnetic North Pole

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

722 ms

Page Rendered

144 ms

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About Website

Visit polarrace.com now to see the best up-to-date Polar Race content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about polarrace.com

Polar Race 2007 - a 400 mile race across the Arctic to the Magnetic North Pole - probably the world's toughest race and the ultimate polar challenge.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Polarrace.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 866 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

polarrace.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 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)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

polarrace.com

205 ms

www.polarrace.com

176 ms

polarrace2005.css

142 ms

drop_down.js

162 ms

email-decode.min.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Polarrace.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (205 ms) belongs to the original domain Polarrace.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.8 kB (58%)

Content Size

13.4 kB

After Optimization

5.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Polarrace.com main page is 13.4 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 9.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 3.5 kB, which is 37% 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 7.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Polar Race images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 124 B

  • Original 999 B
  • After minification 999 B
  • After compression 875 B

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 124 B or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 106 B

  • Original 830 B
  • After minification 830 B
  • After compression 724 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. Polarrace.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Polar Race. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

polarrace.com

polarrace.com

205 ms

www.polarrace.com

www.polarrace.com

176 ms

polarrace2005.css

polarrace2005.css

142 ms

drop_down.js

drop_down.js

162 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

13 ms

logomotto.gif

logomotto.gif

145 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

145 ms

polar_race_map_smaller.gif

polar_race_map_smaller.gif

201 ms

Accessibility Review

polarrace.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

polarrace.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

polarrace.com SEO score

71

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 Polarrace.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 Polarrace.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

polarrace.com

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