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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

dic.com

Dic.com

Page Load Speed

22.5 sec in total

First Response

582 ms

Resources Loaded

21.7 sec

Page Rendered

214 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 582 ms and then it took 22 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

dic.com performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dic.com

582 ms

style.css

332 ms

promo-flags.js.php

19781 ms

top_bg.gif

180 ms

pdfm_box.jpg

381 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Dic.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Promo.parallels.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Dic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.4 kB (24%)

Content Size

52.1 kB

After Optimization

39.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dic.com main page is 52.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 35.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 5.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 35.1 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. Dic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 152 B

  • Original 309 B
  • After minification 238 B
  • After compression 157 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 152 B or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Dic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dic. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

dic.com

dic.com

582 ms

style.css

style.css

332 ms

promo-flags.js.php

promo-flags.js.php

19781 ms

top_bg.gif

top_bg.gif

180 ms

pdfm_box.jpg

pdfm_box.jpg

381 ms

pws_box.jpg

pws_box.jpg

387 ms

def_plesk_logo.gif

def_plesk_logo.gif

276 ms

content_bg.gif

content_bg.gif

385 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

682 ms

btn_asp_bg.gif

btn_asp_bg.gif

571 ms

btn_ssi_bg.gif

btn_ssi_bg.gif

576 ms

btn_php_bg.gif

btn_php_bg.gif

589 ms

btn_coldfusion_bg.gif

btn_coldfusion_bg.gif

781 ms

btn_perl_bg.gif

btn_perl_bg.gif

799 ms

btn_python_bg.gif

btn_python_bg.gif

850 ms

btn_fast_cgi_bg.gif

btn_fast_cgi_bg.gif

905 ms

btn_miva_bg.gif

btn_miva_bg.gif

1027 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

1073 ms

footer_bg.gif

footer_bg.gif

1154 ms

footer_right_bg.png

footer_right_bg.png

1156 ms

promo.plesk.js

promo.plesk.js

326 ms

Accessibility Review

dic.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

dic.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

dic.com SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dic.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Dic.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

dic.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dic. 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: