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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

theviciouscircus.com

The Vicious Circus : Graphic Design, Illustration, & More

Page Load Speed

491 ms in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

252 ms

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

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

The Vicious Circus is the studio of graphic designer, illustrator and lettering artist Greg Eckler. Greg is also a professor of graphic design at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theviciouscircus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 407 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theviciouscircus.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.123

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theviciouscircus.com

84 ms

main2.css

14 ms

jquery.min.js

61 ms

background.js

59 ms

responsiveslides.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Theviciouscircus.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (140 ms) belongs to the original domain Theviciouscircus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 200.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theviciouscircus.com main page is 6.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 7.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 111.8 kB

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 6.1 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 Vicious Circus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 121.4 kB
  • After minification 114.6 kB
  • After compression 51.5 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 69.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 9.3 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Theviciouscircus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (13%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Vicious Circus. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theviciouscircus.com

theviciouscircus.com

84 ms

main2.css

main2.css

14 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

61 ms

background.js

background.js

59 ms

responsiveslides.js

responsiveslides.js

58 ms

slider.js

slider.js

59 ms

curtain-green.jpg

curtain-green.jpg

77 ms

dirtyrotten.jpg

dirtyrotten.jpg

82 ms

sagebrush.jpg

sagebrush.jpg

90 ms

rumham.jpg

rumham.jpg

103 ms

dragonslair.jpg

dragonslair.jpg

108 ms

lightthelights.jpg

lightthelights.jpg

93 ms

escapenewyork.jpg

escapenewyork.jpg

88 ms

knockonwood.jpg

knockonwood.jpg

108 ms

weirdscience.jpg

weirdscience.jpg

103 ms

futomaki.jpg

futomaki.jpg

115 ms

sweeney.jpg

sweeney.jpg

106 ms

filigree.jpg

filigree.jpg

128 ms

grilledcheese.jpg

grilledcheese.jpg

118 ms

thumb-kraken.jpg

thumb-kraken.jpg

120 ms

thumb-madherepillow.jpg

thumb-madherepillow.jpg

119 ms

thumb-baconeggcheese.jpg

thumb-baconeggcheese.jpg

121 ms

thumb-instagram.jpg

thumb-instagram.jpg

128 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

130 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

132 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

134 ms

dribbble.png

dribbble.png

133 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

140 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

spotlight.png

spotlight.png

129 ms

logo-640.png

logo-640.png

130 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

21 ms

Montserrat-Black.otf

Montserrat-Black.otf

93 ms

Montserrat-Medium.otf

Montserrat-Medium.otf

94 ms

Montserrat-Bold.otf

Montserrat-Bold.otf

96 ms

RozhaOne-Regular.otf

RozhaOne-Regular.otf

102 ms

Montserrat-MediumItalic.otf

Montserrat-MediumItalic.otf

103 ms

bg-green-stripes.jpg

bg-green-stripes.jpg

86 ms

Accessibility Review

theviciouscircus.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

Best Practices

theviciouscircus.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

theviciouscircus.com SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Theviciouscircus.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 Theviciouscircus.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

theviciouscircus.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Vicious Circus. 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: