Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% 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

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

spacetoday.net

spacetoday.net: space news from around the web

Page Load Speed

841 ms in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

714 ms

Page Rendered

114 ms

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About Website

Welcome to spacetoday.net homepage info - get ready to check Space Today best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about spacetoday.net

Space news summaries and links to space news articles published throughout the web, updated daily.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spacetoday.net page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 828 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spacetoday.net performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spacetoday.net

13 ms

spacetoday.net

41 ms

style0101.css

8 ms

pubcode.min.js

62 ms

adsbygoogle.js

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Spacetoday.net, 7% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (388 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

456.0 kB

After Optimization

418.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Spacetoday.net main page is 456.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 271.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 17.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 158.1 kB
  • After minification 144.2 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. Space Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 271.9 kB
  • After minification 271.9 kB
  • After compression 265.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 122 B

  • Original 601 B
  • After minification 601 B
  • After compression 479 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. Spacetoday.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 122 B or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Space 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

spacetoday.net accessibility score

72

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

spacetoday.net best practices score

58

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

spacetoday.net SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Spacetoday.net 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 Spacetoday.net 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 Space 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: