Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

dotsmart.net

Duncan Smart's Blog

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

557 ms

dotsmart.net screenshot

About Website

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Developer based in Oxfordshire, UK

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dotsmart.net page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dotsmart.net performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dotsmart.net

3339 ms

blog.dotsmart.net

427 ms

bootstrap_635847939101174896.css

328 ms

site_635927794130288746.css

195 ms

image.png

511 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dotsmart.net, 83% (15 requests) were made to Blog.dotsmart.net and 11% (2 requests) were made to Stackexchange.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Dotsmart.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.5 kB (34%)

Content Size

487.0 kB

After Optimization

322.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Dotsmart.net main page is 487.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 312.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 2.3 kB, which is 11% 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 15.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 312.8 kB
  • After minification 295.8 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. Dot Smart images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 132.6 kB

  • Original 153.1 kB
  • After minification 120.4 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Dotsmart.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 132.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dot Smart. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

dotsmart.net accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dotsmart.net best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

dotsmart.net SEO score

80

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dotsmart.net 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 Dotsmart.net 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 Dot Smart. 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: