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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

thewhalehunt.org

The Whale Hunt / A storytelling experiment / by Jonathan Harris

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

827 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Whale Hunt content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thewhalehunt.org

An experiment in human storytelling, using a photographic heartbeat of 3,214 images to document an Eskimo whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewhalehunt.org page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 914 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thewhalehunt.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thewhalehunt.org

184 ms

thewhalehunt.org

327 ms

styles.css

81 ms

umiaq.jpg

314 ms

whale.gif

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Thewhalehunt.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (327 ms) belongs to the original domain Thewhalehunt.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

72.2 kB

After Optimization

70.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thewhalehunt.org main page is 72.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 68.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 777 B

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 360 B, which is 17% 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 1.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 35 B

  • Original 68.8 kB
  • After minification 68.8 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. The Whale Hunt images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 232 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Thewhalehunt.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 232 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Whale Hunt. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thewhalehunt.org accessibility score

94

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.

Best Practices

thewhalehunt.org 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

thewhalehunt.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thewhalehunt.org 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 Thewhalehunt.org 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 The Whale Hunt. 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: