Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

storiesspace.com

Short stories, flash fiction, social network for writers and story lovers | Stories Space

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Storiesspace.com page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

storiesspace.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value980 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

storiesspace.com

26 ms

storiesspace.com

119 ms

www.storiesspace.com

749 ms

udi8grl.css

31 ms

stsp-logo.svg

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Storiesspace.com, 42% (34 requests) were made to Static.fxxy.net and 15% (12 requests) were made to Media2.storiesspace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (755 ms) relates to the external source Media2.storiesspace.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.2 kB (45%)

Content Size

883.2 kB

After Optimization

490.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Storiesspace.com main page is 883.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 459.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 391.6 kB

  • Original 459.5 kB
  • After minification 449.7 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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 391.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 423.7 kB
  • After minification 422.1 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. Stories Space images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (28%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stories Space. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

storiesspace.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

storiesspace.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

storiesspace.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Storiesspace.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 Storiesspace.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Stories Space. 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: