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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 38

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

thearctic.is

The Arctic Is

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

391 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

123 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thearctic.is homepage info - get ready to check The Arctic best content right away, or after learning these important things about thearctic.is

The Arctic Is web site, providing a new perspective on the Arctic region and the critical issues facing it today. The articles in this site are arranged into general Overviews (available in English, G...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thearctic.is page load time and found that the first response time was 391 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thearctic.is performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thearctic.is

391 ms

hawp.css

127 ms

nedstat.gif

274 ms

thearcticis_logo.gif

267 ms

thearcticis_logoextra.gif

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Thearctic.is, 10% (4 requests) were made to Usa.nedstatbasic.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (879 ms) belongs to the original domain Thearctic.is.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.8 kB (45%)

Content Size

24.1 kB

After Optimization

13.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thearctic.is main page is 24.1 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. HTML takes 13.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 1.9 kB, which is 14% 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 10.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 9.4 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. The Arctic images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 674 B

  • Original 926 B
  • After minification 649 B
  • After compression 252 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. Thearctic.is needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 674 B or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (67%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Arctic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thearctic.is

thearctic.is

391 ms

hawp.css

hawp.css

127 ms

nedstat.gif

nedstat.gif

274 ms

thearcticis_logo.gif

thearcticis_logo.gif

267 ms

thearcticis_logoextra.gif

thearcticis_logoextra.gif

268 ms

n1_corner.gif

n1_corner.gif

268 ms

links.gif

links.gif

269 ms

phototour.gif

phototour.gif

269 ms

siteinfo.gif

siteinfo.gif

269 ms

feedback.gif

feedback.gif

375 ms

GBP.gif

GBP.gif

383 ms

ISL.gif

ISL.gif

380 ms

FRF.gif

FRF.gif

384 ms

DEM.gif

DEM.gif

385 ms

DKK.gif

DKK.gif

385 ms

web_resource.gif

web_resource.gif

504 ms

search.gif

search.gif

504 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

504 ms

welcome.gif

welcome.gif

510 ms

overviews.gif

overviews.gif

511 ms

ecosystem.gif

ecosystem.gif

512 ms

h1_ecosystem.gif

h1_ecosystem.gif

629 ms

homeland.gif

homeland.gif

629 ms

h1_homeland.gif

h1_homeland.gif

628 ms

changing.gif

changing.gif

638 ms

h1_changing.gif

h1_changing.gif

639 ms

topics.gif

topics.gif

639 ms

cases.gif

cases.gif

753 ms

stefogo.gif

stefogo.gif

753 ms

AClogo_mini.gif

AClogo_mini.gif

754 ms

spri_logo.gif

spri_logo.gif

766 ms

euflag.gif

euflag.gif

767 ms

UArctic_weblogo_50.gif

UArctic_weblogo_50.gif

767 ms

clip_image002.jpg

clip_image002.jpg

879 ms

girl_logo.jpg

girl_logo.jpg

879 ms

referstat.gif

referstat.gif

162 ms

v_stripe.gif

v_stripe.gif

747 ms

nedstat.gif

nedstat.gif

340 ms

referstat.gif

referstat.gif

338 ms

Accessibility Review

thearctic.is accessibility score

38

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

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

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thearctic.is best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thearctic.is SEO score

58

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thearctic.is 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 Thearctic.is 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

thearctic.is

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