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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

ditchthewheat.com

Home Page - Ditch the Wheat

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

332 ms

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About Website

Visit ditchthewheat.com now to see the best up-to-date Ditch The Wheat content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ditchthewheat.com

Ditch the Wheat is devoted to making living gluten free easier by providing you with tasty gluten free recipes and education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ditchthewheat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ditchthewheat.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ditchthewheat.com

1399 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

80 ms

main.css

118 ms

testimonial-rotator-style.css

130 ms

font-awesome.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Ditchthewheat.com, 6% (9 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ditchthewheat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (35%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ditchthewheat.com main page is 4.0 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. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 66.3 kB

  • Original 86.4 kB
  • After minification 84.1 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 66.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 83.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Ditch The Wheat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 655.9 kB

  • Original 939.5 kB
  • After minification 888.0 kB
  • After compression 283.5 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 655.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 598.0 kB

  • Original 684.9 kB
  • After minification 632.4 kB
  • After compression 86.9 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. Ditchthewheat.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 598.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 87 (64%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ditch The Wheat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ditchthewheat.com

ditchthewheat.com

1399 ms

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wp-emoji-release.min.js

80 ms

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main.css

118 ms

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130 ms

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20 ms

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Accessibility Review

ditchthewheat.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

ditchthewheat.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ditchthewheat.com SEO score

85

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

ditchthewheat.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ditch The Wheat. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: