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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

starcitizenbase.com

Star Citizen Base | Star Citizen Forums | Star Citizen Fansite

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

616 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

352 ms

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About Website

Visit starcitizenbase.com now to see the best up-to-date Star Citizen Base content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about starcitizenbase.com

News, Announcements & Community for Roberts Space Industries game, Star Citizen. Star Citizen Base is the largest community and forums for the upcoming PC video game Star Citizen. Join today to learn ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Starcitizenbase.com page load time and found that the first response time was 616 ms and then it took 1.7 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

starcitizenbase.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forums.starcitizenbase.com

616 ms

js

47 ms

341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css

212 ms

05e81b71abe4f22d6eb8d1a929494829_responsive.css

117 ms

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Starcitizenbase.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Discord.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (616 ms) relates to the external source Forums.starcitizenbase.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Starcitizenbase.com main page is 2.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 129.1 kB
  • After minification 116.0 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 108.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 140.9 kB
  • After minification 112.7 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, Star Citizen Base needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.2 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 799.8 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 799.8 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 456.3 kB

  • Original 584.4 kB
  • After minification 569.6 kB
  • After compression 128.1 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. Starcitizenbase.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 456.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (53%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forums.starcitizenbase.com

forums.starcitizenbase.com

616 ms

js

js

47 ms

341e4a57816af3ba440d891ca87450ff_framework.css

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212 ms

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05e81b71abe4f22d6eb8d1a929494829_responsive.css

117 ms

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css

90eb5adf50a8c640f633d47fd7eb1778_core.css

114 ms

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91 ms

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120 ms

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98 ms

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120 ms

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148 ms

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143 ms

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258adbb6e4f3e83cd3b355f84e3fa002_custom.css

190 ms

root_library.js

root_library.js

376 ms

root_js_lang_1.js

root_js_lang_1.js

374 ms

root_framework.js

root_framework.js

383 ms

global_global_core.js

global_global_core.js

177 ms

root_front.js

root_front.js

374 ms

front_front_core.js

front_front_core.js

374 ms

front_front_forum.js

front_front_forum.js

375 ms

root_map.js

root_map.js

375 ms

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Accessibility Review

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

starcitizenbase.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

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 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 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

starcitizenbase.com

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