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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

strangehorizons.com

Strange Horizons - A Magazine of Speculative Fiction

Page Load Speed

412 ms in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

181 ms

Page Rendered

166 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Strange Horizons content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about strangehorizons.com

Strange Horizons is a free weekly online magazine devoted to publishing high-quality speculative fiction, poetry, art, and related nonfiction.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Strangehorizons.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 347 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

strangehorizons.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

strangehorizons.com

65 ms

basic_sh.css

24 ms

import_sh.css

24 ms

urchin.js

28 ms

sh_head.gif

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Strangehorizons.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (65 ms) belongs to the original domain Strangehorizons.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

103.0 kB

After Optimization

76.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Strangehorizons.com main page is 103.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 68.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 12.7 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 9.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 68.0 kB
  • After minification 64.0 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. Strange Horizons images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 14.1 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Strangehorizons.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (29%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Strange Horizons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

strangehorizons.com

strangehorizons.com

65 ms

basic_sh.css

basic_sh.css

24 ms

import_sh.css

import_sh.css

24 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

28 ms

sh_head.gif

sh_head.gif

34 ms

layout_sh.css

layout_sh.css

13 ms

style_sh.css

style_sh.css

23 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

sh.jpg

sh.jpg

12 ms

sh_head_oqp_planet.gif

sh_head_oqp_planet.gif

13 ms

weekly.jpg

weekly.jpg

22 ms

weekly.jpg

weekly.jpg

13 ms

weekly.jpg

weekly.jpg

23 ms

weekly.jpg

weekly.jpg

34 ms

print.css

print.css

12 ms

Accessibility Review

strangehorizons.com accessibility score

70

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

strangehorizons.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

strangehorizons.com SEO score

74

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Strangehorizons.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Strangehorizons.com 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

strangehorizons.com

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