Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

darkrome.com

Best Guided Tours of Rome, Vatican and Italy - Dark Rome

Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

12.2 sec

Page Rendered

514 ms

darkrome.com screenshot

About Website

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Tours and walks that visit all the best sights in Rome, Italy. We also do tours of the Vatican, Venice, Florence, Milan and Sorrento

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Key Findings

We analyzed Darkrome.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 12.7 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

darkrome.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

darkrome.com

74 ms

darkrome.com

10939 ms

polyfill.min.js

530 ms

uc.js

21 ms

gtm.js

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Darkrome.com, 39% (17 requests) were made to Cdn-darkromecom.azureedge.net and 11% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.darkrome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Darkrome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 553.2 kB (57%)

Content Size

968.1 kB

After Optimization

414.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Darkrome.com main page is 968.1 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. 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. HTML takes 546.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 448.2 kB

  • Original 546.4 kB
  • After minification 544.4 kB
  • After compression 98.2 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 448.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 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 Rome images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 274.1 kB
  • After minification 274.1 kB
  • After compression 263.1 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

-69%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 137.2 kB
  • After compression 43.2 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. Darkrome.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (73%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dark Rome. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

darkrome.com 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.

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

darkrome.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

darkrome.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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