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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

darke.ca

Cypress County Choppers Canadian distributor for Ultima products.

Page Load Speed

490 ms in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

339 ms

Page Rendered

89 ms

darke.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Darke.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 428 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

darke.ca performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 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)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

darke.ca

62 ms

styles.css

26 ms

spacer.gif

25 ms

logo.gif

47 ms

main_02.gif

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Darke.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (248 ms) belongs to the original domain Darke.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.5 kB (72%)

Content Size

14.7 kB

After Optimization

4.1 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Darke.ca main page is 14.7 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. HTML takes 14.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 10.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 92 B

  • Original 318 B
  • After minification 309 B
  • After compression 226 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. Darke.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92 B or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (44%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Darke. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

darke.ca

darke.ca

62 ms

styles.css

styles.css

26 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

25 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

47 ms

main_02.gif

main_02.gif

48 ms

about.gif

about.gif

47 ms

build-a-bike.gif

build-a-bike.gif

48 ms

custom-parts.gif

custom-parts.gif

48 ms

custom-builds.gif

custom-builds.gif

248 ms

for-sale.gif

for-sale.gif

70 ms

contact.gif

contact.gif

71 ms

main_09.gif

main_09.gif

72 ms

main_10.gif

main_10.gif

72 ms

main_11.gif

main_11.gif

72 ms

main_12.gif

main_12.gif

93 ms

main_13.gif

main_13.gif

94 ms

sidebg.gif

sidebg.gif

95 ms

news.gif

news.gif

96 ms

main_15.gif

main_15.gif

95 ms

main_16.gif

main_16.gif

116 ms

main_17.gif

main_17.gif

118 ms

main_18.gif

main_18.gif

117 ms

choppers.gif

choppers.gif

140 ms

main_20.gif

main_20.gif

118 ms

main_21.gif

main_21.gif

140 ms

main_22.gif

main_22.gif

141 ms

main_23.gif

main_23.gif

141 ms

main_24.gif

main_24.gif

142 ms

main_25.gif

main_25.gif

166 ms

banner.gif

banner.gif

166 ms

aboutbutch.gif

aboutbutch.gif

167 ms

workinprogress.gif

workinprogress.gif

166 ms

general.gif

general.gif

165 ms

Accessibility Review

darke.ca accessibility score

86

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.

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

darke.ca best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

darke.ca 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 Darke.ca 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 Darke.ca 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

darke.ca

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