Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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lightbeforedark.com

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Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

432 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lightbeforedark.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lightbeforedark.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

lightbeforedark.com

1539 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

104 ms

bootstrap.custom.css

296 ms

public.css

292 ms

dashicons.min.css

382 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Lightbeforedark.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Lightbeforedark.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

896.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Lightbeforedark.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 744.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 49.1 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 49.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 548.3 kB
  • After minification 514.1 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. Lightbeforedark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 492.2 kB

  • Original 688.2 kB
  • After minification 634.0 kB
  • After compression 196.0 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 492.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 572.2 kB

  • Original 744.3 kB
  • After minification 644.7 kB
  • After compression 172.0 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. Lightbeforedark.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 572.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (70%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lightbeforedark. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lightbeforedark.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 Lightbeforedark.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 Lightbeforedark.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 Lightbeforedark. 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: