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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thedarkhorses.com

The Dark Horses - A specialist crew company for the music and events industries

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

523 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Dark Horses content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thedarkhorses.com

The Dark Horses is a team of the UK's most reputable freelancers across the music and events industries. We include managers of some of the UK's most well-known festivals and events, top level product...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedarkhorses.com page load time and found that the first response time was 523 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedarkhorses.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedarkhorses.com

523 ms

ccm.base.css

161 ms

jquery.js

398 ms

ccm.base.js

161 ms

view.css

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Thedarkhorses.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (523 ms) belongs to the original domain Thedarkhorses.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.2 kB (75%)

Content Size

256.3 kB

After Optimization

65.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedarkhorses.com main page is 256.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 157.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 8.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 70.2 kB

  • Original 70.9 kB
  • After minification 673 B

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. Obviously, The Dark Horses needs image optimization as it can save up to 70.2 kB or 99% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 100.9 kB

  • Original 157.7 kB
  • After minification 156.5 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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 100.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 13.6 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Thedarkhorses.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (31%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Dark Horses. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thedarkhorses.com

thedarkhorses.com

523 ms

ccm.base.css

ccm.base.css

161 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

398 ms

ccm.base.js

ccm.base.js

161 ms

view.css

view.css

161 ms

reset.css

reset.css

161 ms

960.css

960.css

165 ms

main.css

main.css

392 ms

mainie.css

mainie.css

340 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

341 ms

dkt6gfb.js

dkt6gfb.js

31 ms

twitterFetcher_min.js

twitterFetcher_min.js

323 ms

backer.png

backer.png

81 ms

home.png

home.png

161 ms

spacer.png

spacer.png

161 ms

services.png

services.png

161 ms

weapons.png

weapons.png

161 ms

clients.png

clients.png

168 ms

news.png

news.png

239 ms

contact.png

contact.png

319 ms

hometitle.png

hometitle.png

321 ms

iefooter.png

iefooter.png

327 ms

rss.png

rss.png

323 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

326 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

398 ms

footer.png

footer.png

477 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

latestnews.png

latestnews.png

456 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

458 ms

contact.png

contact.png

460 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

thedarkhorses.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

thedarkhorses.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thedarkhorses.com SEO score

69

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

thedarkhorses.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Dark Horses. 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: