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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

darkstargames.co.uk

Play in the Star Wars Universe with Dark Star Games - Dark Star Games

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

498 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

darkstargames.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Dark Star Games content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about darkstargames.co.uk

If you like the idea of taking part in adventures in the Star Wars universe you've come to the right place! Whether you prefer epic space battles, battling armies in miniature war gaming, board games ...

Visit darkstargames.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Darkstargames.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 498 ms and then it took 2.2 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

darkstargames.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkstargames.co.uk

498 ms

da018684065b5e4ed5ae485e12a477b0.darkstar.css.php

87 ms

945d5df39bf0120cb31a5dd40cdda389.jquery.js.php

271 ms

a761fd3616a45fda4e7b839c17f48350.jqueryui.js.php

380 ms

e7e5cd3c37784f026221b20f5d07cc9f.darkstar.functions.js.php

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Darkstargames.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.salesfire.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (522 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.salesfire.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Darkstargames.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. 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 20.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Dark Star Games images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 220.0 kB
  • After minification 219.9 kB
  • After compression 206.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (61%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dark Star Games. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkstargames.co.uk

www.darkstargames.co.uk

498 ms

da018684065b5e4ed5ae485e12a477b0.darkstar.css.php

da018684065b5e4ed5ae485e12a477b0.darkstar.css.php

87 ms

945d5df39bf0120cb31a5dd40cdda389.jquery.js.php

945d5df39bf0120cb31a5dd40cdda389.jquery.js.php

271 ms

a761fd3616a45fda4e7b839c17f48350.jqueryui.js.php

a761fd3616a45fda4e7b839c17f48350.jqueryui.js.php

380 ms

e7e5cd3c37784f026221b20f5d07cc9f.darkstar.functions.js.php

e7e5cd3c37784f026221b20f5d07cc9f.darkstar.functions.js.php

317 ms

9186509c12f470046cb3cb71d76f8e25.menu.js.php

9186509c12f470046cb3cb71d76f8e25.menu.js.php

232 ms

js

js

68 ms

655797ce-14ff-45e5-943e-06700c61b3a1.js

655797ce-14ff-45e5-943e-06700c61b3a1.js

522 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

23 ms

js

js

96 ms

bat.js

bat.js

113 ms

star-wars-unlimited-banner.jpg

star-wars-unlimited-banner.jpg

339 ms

star-wars-shatterpoint-banner.jpg

star-wars-shatterpoint-banner.jpg

263 ms

star-wars-legion-banner.jpg

star-wars-legion-banner.jpg

230 ms

x-wing-2nd-edition.jpg

x-wing-2nd-edition.jpg

264 ms

star-wars-armada-banner.jpg

star-wars-armada-banner.jpg

264 ms

star-wars-imperial-assault-banner.png

star-wars-imperial-assault-banner.png

346 ms

star-wars-clearance-sale.jpg

star-wars-clearance-sale.jpg

386 ms

28776.js

28776.js

478 ms

dark-star-games-banner-tile.jpg

dark-star-games-banner-tile.jpg

293 ms

dark-star-games-logo.png

dark-star-games-logo.png

296 ms

97 ms

134 ms

Capture_it-webfont.woff

Capture_it-webfont.woff

247 ms

search.gif

search.gif

321 ms

js

js

76 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

45 ms

main1.min.js

main1.min.js

26 ms

3.3.0.js

3.3.0.js

101 ms

26020688.js

26020688.js

24 ms

tracking.js

tracking.js

92 ms

Blueparker-071122.woff

Blueparker-071122.woff

274 ms

26020688

26020688

120 ms

collect

collect

74 ms

collect

collect

49 ms

44 ms

27 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

14 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

30 ms

Capture_it-webfont.ttf

Capture_it-webfont.ttf

83 ms

Capture_it-webfont.svg

Capture_it-webfont.svg

81 ms

jquery.noconflict.js

jquery.noconflict.js

18 ms

css

css

26 ms

simplestar.png

simplestar.png

17 ms

c.gif

c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

darkstargames.co.uk accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

darkstargames.co.uk best practices score

58

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

darkstargames.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

darkstargames.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dark Star Games. 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: