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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

thedarkness.com

The Darkness Haunted House St. Louis, Missouri - America's Scariest Haunted House

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

589 ms

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About Website

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

Scariest Haunted House in America is The Darkness which includes zombie laser tag, several haunted houses, and escape rooms. Learn more at www.scarefest.com

Visit thedarkness.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Thedarkness.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedarkness.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

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weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.27

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Thedarkness.com, 44% (84 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 36% (68 requests) were made to D2eztu95ca7dqr.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (943 ms) relates to the external source D2eztu95ca7dqr.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 277.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedarkness.com main page is 2.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 208.5 kB

  • Original 244.7 kB
  • After minification 244.1 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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. 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 208.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 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. The Darkness images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 368.9 kB
  • After minification 368.9 kB
  • After compression 323.5 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 45.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 103.6 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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. Thedarkness.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (19%)

Requests Now

156

After Optimization

126

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 156 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Darkness. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thedarkness.com accessibility score

92

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thedarkness.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thedarkness.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thedarkness.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 Thedarkness.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

thedarkness.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Darkness. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: