Report Summary

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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larkinthedark.net

Lark in the Dark | Musings of a lopsided ultra runner

Page Load Speed

21.1 sec in total

First Response

5 sec

Resources Loaded

15.2 sec

Page Rendered

903 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Larkinthedark.net page load time and found that the first response time was 5 sec and then it took 16.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

larkinthedark.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

larkinthedark.net

5039 ms

style.css

125 ms

sovrn-ad-manager.css

1345 ms

jetpack.css

1348 ms

jquery.js

1477 ms

Our browser made a total of 742 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Larkinthedark.net, 7% (49 requests) were made to Ap.lijit.com and 5% (37 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) belongs to the original domain Larkinthedark.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Larkinthedark.net main page is 2.2 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

  • Original 108.9 kB
  • After minification 106.3 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 95.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 884 B

  • Original 631.8 kB
  • After minification 630.9 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. Lark In The Dark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 895.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 438.0 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 895.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 76.7 kB

  • Original 93.5 kB
  • After minification 84.3 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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. Larkinthedark.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 421 (86%)

Requests Now

487

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 487 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lark In The Dark. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 93 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

larkinthedark.net SEO score

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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 Larkinthedark.net 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 Larkinthedark.net 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

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