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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

darkregions.com

Dark Regions Press - Books of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction

Page Load Speed

13.9 sec in total

First Response

3.8 sec

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit darkregions.com now to see the best up-to-date Dark Regions content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about darkregions.com

Dark Regions Press is an independent specialty publisher of horror, fantasy and science fiction books since 1985. Support by ordering direct on DarkRegions.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Darkregions.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.8 sec and then it took 10.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

darkregions.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkregions.com

3816 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

187 ms

jckqv-styles.min.css

189 ms

admin-ajax.php

1104 ms

styles.css

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (112 requests) were addressed to the original Darkregions.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Forms.aweber.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Darkregions.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (36%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Darkregions.com main page is 5.3 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. 75% 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 218.6 kB

  • Original 249.0 kB
  • After minification 237.8 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 218.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 224.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Dark Regions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 570.5 kB

  • Original 820.9 kB
  • After minification 806.5 kB
  • After compression 250.3 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 570.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 860.2 kB

  • Original 969.8 kB
  • After minification 879.5 kB
  • After compression 109.6 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. Darkregions.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 860.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (48%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dark Regions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkregions.com

www.darkregions.com

3816 ms

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Accessibility Review

darkregions.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

darkregions.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

darkregions.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Darkregions.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 Darkregions.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

darkregions.com

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