Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

stories.barkpost.com

BARK Post: Dog News, Guides, Reviews, & Cool Stuff from BARK

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

4.6 sec

stories.barkpost.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stories.barkpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stories.barkpost.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stories.barkpost.com

105 ms

post.bark.co

168 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

27 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

55 ms

style.min.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Stories.barkpost.com, 81% (95 requests) were made to Post.bark.co and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (348 ms) relates to the external source Post.bark.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 424.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Stories.barkpost.com main page is 3.6 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 246.9 kB

  • Original 273.5 kB
  • After minification 182.6 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 90.9 kB, which is 33% 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 246.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 131.7 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB

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. Stories BARK Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 212.7 kB
  • After minification 212.7 kB
  • After compression 201.8 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 640.5 kB
  • After minification 640.3 kB
  • After compression 605.5 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. Stories.barkpost.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (80%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stories BARK Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 39 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stories.barkpost.com accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

stories.barkpost.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stories.barkpost.com SEO score

85

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stories.barkpost.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 Stories.barkpost.com 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 Stories BARK Post. 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: