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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

darkstargames.co.uk

Play in the Star Wars Universe with Dark Star Games - Dark Star Games

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

505 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

318 ms

darkstargames.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Dark Star Games content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about darkstargames.co.uk

If you like the idea of taking part in adventures in the Star Wars universe you've come to the right place! Whether you prefer epic space battles, battling armies in miniature war gaming, board games ...

Visit darkstargames.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Darkstargames.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 505 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

darkstargames.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.208

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkstargames.co.uk

505 ms

c729ac147b9aac75038bbced38364c06.darkstar.css.php

86 ms

dae9357400e049f839d1e3b20333f334.jquery.js.php

266 ms

b9486148fab0f4b573fdbb9a8e7de1b2.jqueryui.js.php

378 ms

ab5a49cd7a5daf0f2aa07b934269b676.darkstar.functions.js.php

313 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Darkstargames.co.uk, 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.salesfire.co.uk and 8% (3 requests) were made to Shopperapproved.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (532 ms) belongs to the original domain Darkstargames.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Darkstargames.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 18.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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 Star Games images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 202.7 kB
  • After minification 202.7 kB
  • After compression 190.5 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 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dark Star Games. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkstargames.co.uk

www.darkstargames.co.uk

505 ms

c729ac147b9aac75038bbced38364c06.darkstar.css.php

c729ac147b9aac75038bbced38364c06.darkstar.css.php

86 ms

dae9357400e049f839d1e3b20333f334.jquery.js.php

dae9357400e049f839d1e3b20333f334.jquery.js.php

266 ms

b9486148fab0f4b573fdbb9a8e7de1b2.jqueryui.js.php

b9486148fab0f4b573fdbb9a8e7de1b2.jqueryui.js.php

378 ms

ab5a49cd7a5daf0f2aa07b934269b676.darkstar.functions.js.php

ab5a49cd7a5daf0f2aa07b934269b676.darkstar.functions.js.php

313 ms

df28e606b4c989852ce76b8e80b81012.menu.js.php

df28e606b4c989852ce76b8e80b81012.menu.js.php

232 ms

js

js

72 ms

655797ce-14ff-45e5-943e-06700c61b3a1.js

655797ce-14ff-45e5-943e-06700c61b3a1.js

369 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

30 ms

js

js

107 ms

bat.js

bat.js

72 ms

star-wars-unlimited-banner.jpg

star-wars-unlimited-banner.jpg

303 ms

star-wars-shatterpoint-banner.jpg

star-wars-shatterpoint-banner.jpg

232 ms

star-wars-legion-banner.jpg

star-wars-legion-banner.jpg

307 ms

x-wing-2nd-edition.jpg

x-wing-2nd-edition.jpg

233 ms

star-wars-armada-banner.jpg

star-wars-armada-banner.jpg

157 ms

star-wars-imperial-assault-banner.png

star-wars-imperial-assault-banner.png

532 ms

star-wars-clearance-sale.jpg

star-wars-clearance-sale.jpg

238 ms

main1.min.js

main1.min.js

50 ms

3.3.0.js

3.3.0.js

68 ms

28776.js

28776.js

47 ms

dark-star-games-banner-tile.jpg

dark-star-games-banner-tile.jpg

263 ms

dark-star-games-logo.png

dark-star-games-logo.png

264 ms

Capture_it-webfont.woff

Capture_it-webfont.woff

272 ms

search.gif

search.gif

333 ms

tracking.js

tracking.js

74 ms

Blueparker-071122.woff

Blueparker-071122.woff

315 ms

26020688.js

26020688.js

16 ms

26020688

26020688

86 ms

jquery.noconflict.js

jquery.noconflict.js

27 ms

css

css

71 ms

simplestar.png

simplestar.png

15 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

18 ms

Capture_it-webfont.ttf

Capture_it-webfont.ttf

80 ms

Capture_it-webfont.svg

Capture_it-webfont.svg

79 ms

c.gif

c.gif

7 ms

Accessibility Review

darkstargames.co.uk accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

darkstargames.co.uk best practices score

58

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

darkstargames.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Darkstargames.co.uk 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 Darkstargames.co.uk 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

darkstargames.co.uk

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