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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

darrenshan.com

Darren Shan - Author

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

darrenshan.com screenshot

About Website

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

Darren Shan is an Irish author of horror and fantasy books. The Saga of Darren Shan, series, The Demonata series, The City Trilogy, Thin Executioner

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Key Findings

We analyzed Darrenshan.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

darrenshan.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

darrenshan.com

33 ms

darrenshan.com

281 ms

darrenshan14.css

19 ms

css

45 ms

css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Darrenshan.com, 26% (11 requests) were made to Darrenshan2014-frequency.netdna-ssl.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Images.weserv.nl. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Flickr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

272.1 kB

After Optimization

259.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Darrenshan.com main page is 272.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 199.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 10.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 199.9 kB
  • After minification 198.9 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. Darren Shan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 473 B

  • Original 51.3 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 50.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Darrenshan.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (44%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Darren Shan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

darrenshan.com

darrenshan.com

33 ms

darrenshan.com

darrenshan.com

281 ms

darrenshan14.css

darrenshan14.css

19 ms

css

css

45 ms

css

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60 ms

js

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66 ms

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1089 ms

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111 ms

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111 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

101 ms

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icon-rss.png

25 ms

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26 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

26 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

25 ms

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25 ms

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icon-flickr.png

25 ms

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25 ms

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25 ms

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26 ms

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25 ms

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25 ms

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images.weserv.nl

107 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

224 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

218 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

169 ms

darrenshan-home01.jpg

darrenshan-home01.jpg

174 ms

book_alt_16x16.png

book_alt_16x16.png

172 ms

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172 ms

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172 ms

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173 ms

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224 ms

js

js

68 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

20 ms

collect

collect

72 ms

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B50NF7ZDq37KMUvlO015jKJu.ttf

81 ms

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85 ms

collect

collect

38 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

139 ms

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footerbg.jpg

103 ms

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hotjar-5091.js

100 ms

vglnk.js

vglnk.js

27 ms

loader.min.js

loader.min.js

62 ms

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modules.1a30a0a67c3c23c13060.js

21 ms

Accessibility Review

darrenshan.com accessibility score

55

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

darrenshan.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

darrenshan.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Darrenshan.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Darrenshan.com 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

darrenshan.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Darren Shan. 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: