Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

firefighternation.com

Home - FirefighterNation

Page Load Speed

154.5 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

43.5 sec

Page Rendered

110.8 sec

firefighternation.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Firefighter Nation content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about firefighternation.com

FirefighterNation.com is where firefighters find breaking news stories, major incident updates, and other firefighting news as well as the latest fire service industry news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firefighternation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 154.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firefighternation.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,680 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firefighternation.com

195 ms

www.firefighternation.com

1024 ms

index.html

482 ms

content6.css

814 ms

header1.css

408 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Firefighternation.com, 40% (64 requests) were made to Aemstatic-ww2.azureedge.net and 31% (49 requests) were made to Aemstatic-ww1.azureedge.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.3 sec) relates to the external source Aemstatic-ww2.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (8%)

Content Size

20.6 MB

After Optimization

19.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Firefighternation.com main page is 20.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 339.8 kB

  • Original 385.1 kB
  • After minification 346.3 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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 339.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 276.2 kB

  • Original 18.9 MB
  • After minification 18.6 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. Firefighter Nation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 649.2 kB

  • Original 887.1 kB
  • After minification 676.9 kB
  • After compression 237.9 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 649.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 316.9 kB

  • Original 381.3 kB
  • After minification 378.7 kB
  • After compression 64.3 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. Firefighternation.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 316.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (27%)

Requests Now

150

After Optimization

110

The browser has sent 150 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firefighter Nation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firefighternation.com accessibility score

92

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

firefighternation.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

firefighternation.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firefighternation.com 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 Firefighternation.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 data is detected on the main page of Firefighter Nation. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: