Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

blog.firstonmars.com

First On Mars

Page Load Speed

24.7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

22.5 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

blog.firstonmars.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Blog First On Mars content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blog.firstonmars.com

First On Mars. Wij zijn verhalenvertellers met een doel. We creëren humour around the brand omdat we geloven in de functionaliteit van humor.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.firstonmars.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 23.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

blog.firstonmars.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,900 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.firstonmars.nl

1161 ms

9eb71603-bf4c-40d8-a950-14054d4732b1.css

61 ms

mapbox.css

41 ms

style.css

171 ms

mapbox.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.firstonmars.com, 15% (9 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 13% (8 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Firstonmars.nl.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 768.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.firstonmars.com main page is 5.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 19.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 157.3 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.8 MB

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. Blog First On Mars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 463.7 kB

  • Original 663.8 kB
  • After minification 645.0 kB
  • After compression 200.1 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 463.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 128.6 kB

  • Original 146.0 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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. Blog.firstonmars.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 128.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (43%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog First On Mars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.firstonmars.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

blog.firstonmars.com best practices score

77

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blog.firstonmars.com SEO score

85

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    NL

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.firstonmars.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Dutch language. Our system also found out that Blog.firstonmars.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 Blog First On Mars. 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: