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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

storybytes.com

Story Bytes - World's Shortest Stories - Fiction with Lengths a Power of 2.

Page Load Speed

827 ms in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

538 ms

Page Rendered

124 ms

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About Website

Visit storybytes.com now to see the best up-to-date Story Bytes content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about storybytes.com

Very short stories (2 words and up), lengths a power of 2. An Ezine and mailing list presenting the Internet's best fiction, science fiction, and fantasy covering technology, philosophy, Christianity....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Storybytes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 662 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

storybytes.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

storybytes.com

165 ms

logo-large.jpg

200 ms

nyc1.jpg

134 ms

month-04.jpg

137 ms

month-05.jpg

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Storybytes.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (374 ms) belongs to the original domain Storybytes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

164.9 kB

After Optimization

143.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Storybytes.com main page is 164.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 152.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.3 kB, which is 19% 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 9.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 152.9 kB
  • After minification 140.7 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. Story Bytes images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Story Bytes. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

storybytes.com

storybytes.com

165 ms

logo-large.jpg

logo-large.jpg

200 ms

nyc1.jpg

nyc1.jpg

134 ms

month-04.jpg

month-04.jpg

137 ms

month-05.jpg

month-05.jpg

136 ms

best-of-2004.jpg

best-of-2004.jpg

153 ms

random.jpg

random.jpg

153 ms

back.jpg

back.jpg

198 ms

back-pdf.jpg

back-pdf.jpg

202 ms

clone.jpg

clone.jpg

202 ms

best-of.jpg

best-of.jpg

226 ms

lengths-0002.jpg

lengths-0002.jpg

227 ms

join.jpg

join.jpg

263 ms

join-not.jpg

join-not.jpg

266 ms

mail.jpg

mail.jpg

268 ms

info.jpg

info.jpg

268 ms

submissions.jpg

submissions.jpg

300 ms

links.jpg

links.jpg

299 ms

dali.jpg

dali.jpg

327 ms

line.gif

line.gif

331 ms

moof.gif

moof.gif

333 ms

moof-inv.gif

moof-inv.gif

334 ms

listnet-logo.gif

listnet-logo.gif

373 ms

ezine-mvt.jpg

ezine-mvt.jpg

374 ms

Accessibility Review

storybytes.com accessibility score

61

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

storybytes.com best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

storybytes.com SEO score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Storybytes.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 Storybytes.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Story Bytes. 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: