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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

horror.org

Horror Writers Association - A professional writers organization for horror writers, dedicated to support, education, and community for writers in the...

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

659 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

636 ms

horror.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Horror.org page load time and found that the first response time was 659 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

horror.org performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

horror.org

659 ms

style.min.css

122 ms

dashicons.min.css

248 ms

rmp-menu.css

183 ms

sfsi-style.css

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Horror.org, 3% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (659 ms) belongs to the original domain Horror.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Horror.org main page is 2.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 195.1 kB

  • Original 234.1 kB
  • After minification 227.0 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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. 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 195.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Horror images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 88.8 kB

  • Original 209.1 kB
  • After minification 209.0 kB
  • After compression 120.3 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 88.8 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 85.4 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. Horror.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (34%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Horror. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

horror.org

horror.org

659 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

122 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

248 ms

rmp-menu.css

rmp-menu.css

183 ms

sfsi-style.css

sfsi-style.css

248 ms

disable_sfsi.css

disable_sfsi.css

184 ms

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form-themes.css

187 ms

css

css

35 ms

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font-awesome.css

187 ms

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244 ms

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243 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

251 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

251 ms

addtoany.min.css

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302 ms

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58 ms

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305 ms

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306 ms

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306 ms

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338 ms

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406 ms

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407 ms

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jquery.cookie.js

406 ms

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407 ms

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406 ms

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jquery.easing.min.js

406 ms

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jquery.mousewheel.min.js

440 ms

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4 ms

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15 ms

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btn_donateCC_LG.gif

75 ms

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236 ms

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118 ms

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114 ms

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113 ms

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Accessibility Review

horror.org accessibility score

75

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

horror.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

horror.org SEO score

76

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Horror.org 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 Horror.org 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

horror.org

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