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darklightlabs.com

DarkLight Labs - Modern design, brilliant engineering

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

989 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

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About Website

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DarkLight Labs is a USA industrial design and manufacturing company specializing in contemporary LED lighting.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Darklightlabs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 989 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

darklightlabs.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

darklightlabs.com

989 ms

www.darklightlabs.com

622 ms

style.css

154 ms

jquery.jcarousel.css

121 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

278 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Darklightlabs.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (989 ms) belongs to the original domain Darklightlabs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 245.1 kB (79%)

Content Size

311.9 kB

After Optimization

66.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Darklightlabs.com main page is 311.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 168.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 559 B, which is 13% 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 2.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 153.3 kB

  • Original 168.1 kB
  • After minification 14.7 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. Obviously, Dark Light Labs needs image optimization as it can save up to 153.3 kB or 91% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 85.0 kB

  • Original 134.7 kB
  • After minification 133.8 kB
  • After compression 49.7 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 85.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.2 kB
  • After compression 956 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. Darklightlabs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (19%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dark Light Labs. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

darklightlabs.com SEO score

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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 Darklightlabs.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 Darklightlabs.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 Dark Light Labs. 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: