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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

darksteve.com

DarkSteve | Find the perfect gifts | Novelty Light | Designer Light Bulb

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

667 ms

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

560 ms

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About Website

Visit darksteve.com now to see the best up-to-date Dark Steve content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about darksteve.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Darksteve.com page load time and found that the first response time was 667 ms and then it took 8.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

darksteve.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.277

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

darksteve.com

667 ms

www.darksteve.com

693 ms

www.darksteve.com

922 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

657 ms

cloud-zoom.1.0.2.js

863 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Darksteve.com, 16% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Darksteve.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 878.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Darksteve.com main page is 3.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 83.9 kB

  • Original 95.8 kB
  • After minification 82.2 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.6 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 83.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 98.0 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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 Steve images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 255.9 kB

  • Original 342.8 kB
  • After minification 279.5 kB
  • After compression 87.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 255.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 440.6 kB

  • Original 503.9 kB
  • After minification 481.3 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Darksteve.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 440.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (40%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

54

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dark Steve. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

darksteve.com

darksteve.com

667 ms

www.darksteve.com

www.darksteve.com

693 ms

www.darksteve.com

www.darksteve.com

922 ms

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657 ms

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864 ms

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Accessibility Review

darksteve.com accessibility score

65

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

darksteve.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

darksteve.com SEO score

90

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

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 Darksteve.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 Darksteve.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

darksteve.com

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