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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

theplanetstoday.com

The Planets Today : A live view of the solar system

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

434 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theplanetstoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theplanetstoday.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.592

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theplanetstoday.com

119 ms

www.theplanetstoday.com

743 ms

jquery-1.9.0.min.js

8 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.js

28 ms

theplanets.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Theplanetstoday.com, 9% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) belongs to the original domain Theplanetstoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 634.1 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

659.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theplanetstoday.com main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 738.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 159.0 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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 120.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 58.4 kB

  • Original 390.3 kB
  • After minification 331.9 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, The Planets Today needs image optimization as it can save up to 58.4 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 451.9 kB

  • Original 738.9 kB
  • After minification 725.8 kB
  • After compression 287.0 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 451.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Theplanetstoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (51%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Planets Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theplanetstoday.com

theplanetstoday.com

119 ms

www.theplanetstoday.com

www.theplanetstoday.com

743 ms

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8 ms

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28 ms

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57 ms

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50 ms

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Accessibility Review

theplanetstoday.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

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

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

theplanetstoday.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

theplanetstoday.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theplanetstoday.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 Theplanetstoday.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

theplanetstoday.com

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