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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

darkhorse.co

Digital Marketing Agency Manchester | SEO & PPC | Dark Horse

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

968 ms

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Darkhorse.co page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

darkhorse.co performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.023

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

darkhorse.co

165 ms

script.js

201 ms

logo-header.svg

59 ms

nav-circle.svg

158 ms

menu-button-bg.webp

219 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Darkhorse.co, 3% (1 request) were made to Cdn-cookieyes.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (634 ms) belongs to the original domain Darkhorse.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 419.5 kB (52%)

Content Size

804.2 kB

After Optimization

384.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Darkhorse.co main page is 804.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 523.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 419.5 kB

  • Original 523.4 kB
  • After minification 486.7 kB
  • After compression 103.9 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 419.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 246.9 kB
  • After minification 246.9 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. Dark Horse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 34.0 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (12%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dark Horse. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

darkhorse.co

darkhorse.co

165 ms

script.js

script.js

201 ms

logo-header.svg

logo-header.svg

59 ms

nav-circle.svg

nav-circle.svg

158 ms

menu-button-bg.webp

menu-button-bg.webp

219 ms

menu-button-text-closed.svg

menu-button-text-closed.svg

186 ms

menu-button-text-open.svg

menu-button-text-open.svg

84 ms

nav-smile.svg

nav-smile.svg

154 ms

top-banner-string-new.png

top-banner-string-new.png

193 ms

banner-texture-new.png

banner-texture-new.png

144 ms

home-banner-image.webp

home-banner-image.webp

198 ms

banner-rip-1-new.png

banner-rip-1-new.png

593 ms

home-talk-to-us-image-1-1200x1009.webp

home-talk-to-us-image-1-1200x1009.webp

192 ms

thumbprint-white.webp

thumbprint-white.webp

252 ms

bat1.webp

bat1.webp

251 ms

bat2.webp

bat2.webp

316 ms

bat3.webp

bat3.webp

250 ms

long-arrow.svg

long-arrow.svg

342 ms

sidescroller-rip.svg

sidescroller-rip.svg

273 ms

page.webp

page.webp

322 ms

rip-border.webp

rip-border.webp

297 ms

792245634

792245634

138 ms

index.js

index.js

296 ms

index.js

index.js

339 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

359 ms

main.js

main.js

362 ms

CPDcertified-BW.jpg

CPDcertified-BW.jpg

369 ms

feefo-rating.png

feefo-rating.png

456 ms

ebay-ad-manager-partner.png

ebay-ad-manager-partner.png

495 ms

meta-business-partner.png

meta-business-partner.png

519 ms

Partner-Badges-2023_Partner.png

Partner-Badges-2023_Partner.png

555 ms

PremierPartner-RGB.png

PremierPartner-RGB.png

515 ms

prolific-north-top-50.png

prolific-north-top-50.png

485 ms

Meta-small.png

Meta-small.png

634 ms

log

log

407 ms

Accessibility Review

darkhorse.co accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

darkhorse.co best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

darkhorse.co SEO score

89

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

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 Darkhorse.co 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 Darkhorse.co 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Dark Horse. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: