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Performance

Renders faster than
67% of other websites
83

Accessibility

Visual factors better than
that of 54% of websites
67

Best Practices

More advanced features
available than in
24% of websites
77

SEO

Google-friendlier than
36% of websites

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Storyhouse content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about storyhouse.org

Writer's Showcase--A Project of thePreservation Foundation, a nonprofit book publisher that advises or publishes writers of limited market works, primarily biography or nonfiction

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Key Findings

We analyzed Storyhouse.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

storyhouse.org

1119 ms

storyhouse.org

1218 ms

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77 ms

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151 ms

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194 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Storyhouse.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Storyhouse.org.

Content Size

23.7 MB

After Optimization

22.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Storyhouse.org main page is 23.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 23.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 292.9 kB

Original 358.9 kB
After minification 358.9 kB
After compression 66.0 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 292.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 621.6 kB

Original 23.3 MB
After minification 22.7 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. Storyhouse images are well optimized though.

Requests Now

140

After Optimization

140

The browser has sent 140 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Storyhouse. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Storyhouse.org 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 Storyhouse.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Storyhouse. 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: