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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

thedaemon.com

Daniel Suarez - Author | Techno-Thrillers | Science Fiction & More

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

775 ms

Page Rendered

789 ms

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About Website

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High tech thrillers &amp modern science fiction by Daniel Suarez. New book

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedaemon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedaemon.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedaemon.com

129 ms

daniel-suarez.com

496 ms

menu.js

6 ms

3col_leftNav.css

10 ms

urchin.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thedaemon.com, 93% (37 requests) were made to Daniel-suarez.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (496 ms) relates to the external source Daniel-suarez.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedaemon.com main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 25.6 kB, which is 31% 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 69.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Thedaemon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 2.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 651 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 995 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. Thedaemon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 651 B or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thedaemon. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thedaemon.com

thedaemon.com

129 ms

daniel-suarez.com

daniel-suarez.com

496 ms

menu.js

menu.js

6 ms

3col_leftNav.css

3col_leftNav.css

10 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

10 ms

DanielSuarezTitle_3.jpg

DanielSuarezTitle_3.jpg

11 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

10 ms

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12 ms

Facebook.png

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12 ms

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12 ms

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13 ms

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14 ms

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14 ms

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15 ms

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18 ms

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18 ms

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18 ms

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19 ms

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27 ms

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22 ms

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25 ms

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28 ms

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27 ms

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25 ms

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27 ms

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31 ms

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30 ms

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32 ms

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33 ms

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35 ms

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33 ms

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46 ms

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36 ms

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43 ms

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42 ms

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43 ms

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43 ms

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45 ms

Accessibility Review

thedaemon.com accessibility score

57

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

thedaemon.com best practices score

67

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

thedaemon.com SEO score

67

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thedaemon.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 Thedaemon.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

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