Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

forums.starcitizenbase.com

Star Citizen Base | Star Citizen Forums | Star Citizen Fansite

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

414 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.starcitizenbase.com page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.starcitizenbase.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forums.starcitizenbase.com

161 ms

bdc423ee95ee36c433dde60bd3ecd789_global.css.81fffe4897959c6a65a9f6fa4a6c637f.css

159 ms

341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css.e37bff1a79cb026963c75da964daefdb.css

225 ms

05e81b71abe4f22d6eb8d1a929494829_responsive.css.00976982c28146b4fe8816dbcee26607.css

187 ms

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css.98215e07be172cc923c54091ae6a6abd.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Forums.starcitizenbase.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Starcitizenbase.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (833 ms) belongs to the original domain Forums.starcitizenbase.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 845.3 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

699.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Forums.starcitizenbase.com main page is 1.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 613.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 114.1 kB

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 121.8 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 114.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 144.8 kB

  • Original 613.2 kB
  • After minification 468.4 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. Obviously, Forums Star Citizen Base needs image optimization as it can save up to 144.8 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 272.2 kB

  • Original 414.1 kB
  • After minification 413.4 kB
  • After compression 142.0 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 272.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 314.2 kB

  • Original 383.5 kB
  • After minification 372.7 kB
  • After compression 69.3 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. Forums.starcitizenbase.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 314.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (29%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Star Citizen Base. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forums.starcitizenbase.com accessibility score

88

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

forums.starcitizenbase.com best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

forums.starcitizenbase.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Forums.starcitizenbase.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 Forums.starcitizenbase.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 Forums Star Citizen Base. 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: