Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

horrorstudiesjournal.com

Horror Studies

Page Load Speed

554 ms in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

305 ms

Page Rendered

186 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Horrorstudiesjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 491 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

horrorstudiesjournal.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

horrorstudiesjournal.com

63 ms

horrorstudiesjournal.com

59 ms

ruffle.js

55 ms

nav-dropdown-horror.css

24 ms

css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Horrorstudiesjournal.com, 18% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (63 ms) belongs to the original domain Horrorstudiesjournal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

980.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Horrorstudiesjournal.com main page is 1.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 3.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 975.3 kB

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. Horror Studies Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Horrorstudiesjournal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Horror Studies Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

horrorstudiesjournal.com accessibility score

85

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

Best Practices

horrorstudiesjournal.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

horrorstudiesjournal.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

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Horror Studies Journal. 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: