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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

indiedevstories.com

Stories from an independent game developerIndie Dev Stories | Stories from an Independent Games Developer

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

930 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

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Articles from an iphone independent developer and game designer focused on mobile platforms: iOS (iPhone, iPot Touch and iPad), Android and Windows Phone (WP7). Here you will find stories about my eve...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Indiedevstories.com page load time and found that the first response time was 930 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

indiedevstories.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

indiedevstories.com

930 ms

style.css

63 ms

moztheme2011.css

66 ms

social_widget.css

66 ms

genericons.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Indiedevstories.com, 12% (15 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Reddit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Developers.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (50%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Indiedevstories.com main page is 5.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 174.9 kB

  • Original 207.2 kB
  • After minification 203.4 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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 174.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Obviously, Indie Dev Stories needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 46% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 217.5 kB
  • After minification 212.5 kB
  • After compression 164.8 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 52.6 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 424.7 kB

  • Original 519.7 kB
  • After minification 498.0 kB
  • After compression 95.0 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. Indiedevstories.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 424.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (63%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Indie Dev Stories. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

indiedevstories.com

indiedevstories.com

930 ms

style.css

style.css

63 ms

moztheme2011.css

moztheme2011.css

66 ms

social_widget.css

social_widget.css

66 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

94 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

123 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

148 ms

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95 ms

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122 ms

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96 ms

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79 ms

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38 ms

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639 ms

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173 ms

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223 ms

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158 ms

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205 ms

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155 ms

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159 ms

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418 ms

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263 ms

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bsa.js

156 ms

search.png

search.png

160 ms

comment-bubble.png

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154 ms

share.js

share.js

92 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

141 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

86 ms

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wpgroho.js

157 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

156 ms

sharing.js

sharing.js

205 ms

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e-202239.js

139 ms

chuck.png

chuck.png

402 ms

smashmallow.png

smashmallow.png

322 ms

MmM-side-bar.png

MmM-side-bar.png

251 ms

Muster_my_Monsters_icon_reflex_03.png

Muster_my_Monsters_icon_reflex_03.png

398 ms

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323 ms

new-sokoban_reflex.png

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323 ms

googleplus.png

googleplus.png

398 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

398 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

398 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

426 ms

rss.png

rss.png

426 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

425 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

170 ms

share.js

share.js

141 ms

button1.html

button1.html

179 ms

Genericons.svg

Genericons.svg

277 ms

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6 ms

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117 ms

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100 ms

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357 ms

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83 ms

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107 ms

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93 ms

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71 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

68 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

141 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

140 ms

pinit.js

pinit.js

65 ms

1f600.svg

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242 ms

in.js

in.js

234 ms

hovercard.min.css

hovercard.min.css

54 ms

services.min.css

services.min.css

54 ms

1f642.svg

1f642.svg

209 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

248 ms

pinit_main.js

pinit_main.js

210 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

205 ms

widget_iframe.c4bdc17e77719578b594d5555bee90db.html

widget_iframe.c4bdc17e77719578b594d5555bee90db.html

671 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

73 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

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111 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

119 ms

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115 ms

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112 ms

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108 ms

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105 ms

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438 ms

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435 ms

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364 ms

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361 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

427 ms

www-embed-player.js

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286 ms

base.js

base.js

783 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

117 ms

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606 ms

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651 ms

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1114 ms

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count.json

1114 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

494 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

1157 ms

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developers.google.com

962 ms

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1025 ms

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1026 ms

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1025 ms

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1992 ms

settings

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1059 ms

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1924 ms

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1839 ms

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1243 ms

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865 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

533 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

738 ms

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646 ms

embed.js

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151 ms

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261 ms

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289 ms

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144 ms

embeds

embeds

420 ms

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embeds

477 ms

embeds

embeds

500 ms

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499 ms

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413 ms

Create

Create

492 ms

Accessibility Review

indiedevstories.com accessibility score

90

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

indiedevstories.com 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

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

indiedevstories.com SEO score

64

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Indiedevstories.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 Indiedevstories.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

indiedevstories.com

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