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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

designbydarren.com

Design By Darren - Senior Visual, User Experience & Product Designer by Darren Clark

Page Load Speed

972 ms in total

First Response

204 ms

Resources Loaded

598 ms

Page Rendered

170 ms

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About Website

Welcome to designbydarren.com homepage info - get ready to check Design By Darren best content right away, or after learning these important things about designbydarren.com

Design By Darren is the online presence of Darren Clark. Specialising in Visual, User Interface & Experience Design for Digital Products. Based in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designbydarren.com page load time and found that the first response time was 204 ms and then it took 768 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

designbydarren.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

designbydarren.com

204 ms

js

63 ms

main.css

100 ms

jquery.min.js

22 ms

scripts.js

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Designbydarren.com, 11% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (204 ms) belongs to the original domain Designbydarren.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

64.3 kB

After Optimization

50.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Designbydarren.com main page is 64.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 31.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 2.4 kB, which is 13% 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 12.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 10.7 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. Design By Darren images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 90 B

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Designbydarren.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design By Darren. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

designbydarren.com

designbydarren.com

204 ms

js

js

63 ms

main.css

main.css

100 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

22 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

177 ms

dbd-man.png

dbd-man.png

99 ms

arrow.svg

arrow.svg

179 ms

VAGRoundedStd-Bold.woff

VAGRoundedStd-Bold.woff

100 ms

VAGRoundedStd-Light.woff

VAGRoundedStd-Light.woff

93 ms

Accessibility Review

designbydarren.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

designbydarren.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

designbydarren.com SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Design By Darren. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: