Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

redcolony.com

Red Colony - Colonizing and Terraforming Mars

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

707 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

219 ms

redcolony.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Redcolony.com page load time and found that the first response time was 707 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 25% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Redcolony.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

redcolony.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

redcolony.com

707 ms

whiblu.css

204 ms

common.js

137 ms

show_ads.js

5 ms

ga.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Redcolony.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) belongs to the original domain Redcolony.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.3 kB (48%)

Content Size

178.0 kB

After Optimization

91.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Redcolony.com main page is 178.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 102.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 38.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 927 B

  • Original 18.9 kB
  • After minification 18.0 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. Red Colony images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 102.5 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 59.6 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 42.9 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 933 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. Redcolony.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (64%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Red Colony. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

redcolony.com accessibility score

46

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

redcolony.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

SEO Factors

redcolony.com SEO score

62

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-8859-15

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Redcolony.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 Redcolony.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-15. 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

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