Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

rnasa.org

Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) | Home

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

rnasa.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing RNASA content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about rnasa.org

The RNASA Foundation, based in Houston, Texas, presents the National Space Trophy and Stellar Awards each year in recognition of outstanding achievements in aerospace

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rnasa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 1.3 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.

Performance Metrics

rnasa.org performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rnasa.org

144 ms

rnasa.org

261 ms

rnasa.js

64 ms

buttons.js

9 ms

rnasa.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Rnasa.org, 15% (3 requests) were made to Google.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (524 ms) belongs to the original domain Rnasa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 557.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

824.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Rnasa.org main page is 1.4 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.9 kB, which is 18% 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 7.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 541.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 768.7 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, RNASA needs image optimization as it can save up to 541.5 kB or 41% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 59.8 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 51.5 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 8.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 549 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Rnasa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 549 B or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (21%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RNASA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rnasa.org accessibility score

73

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

rnasa.org best practices score

50

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

rnasa.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Rnasa.org 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 Rnasa.org 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

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