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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

dowd-financial-planning.com

Dowd Financial Planning: Helping you achieve financial independence

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

390 ms

Resources Loaded

578 ms

Page Rendered

139 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dowd-financial-planning.com page load time and found that the first response time was 390 ms and then it took 717 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dowd-financial-planning.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.174

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dowd-financial-planning.com

390 ms

tem1style.css

36 ms

david.js

90 ms

counter.js

21 ms

ga.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Dowd-financial-planning.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (390 ms) belongs to the original domain Dowd-financial-planning.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

52.7 kB

After Optimization

43.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dowd-financial-planning.com main page is 52.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 21.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 7.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 124 B

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 21.2 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. Dowd Financial Planning images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 556 B

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 330 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 875 B

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. Dowd-financial-planning.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 330 B or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dowd Financial Planning. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dowd-financial-planning.com

dowd-financial-planning.com

390 ms

tem1style.css

tem1style.css

36 ms

david.js

david.js

90 ms

counter.js

counter.js

21 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

Template-1(a)_01.jpg

Template-1(a)_01.jpg

59 ms

Template-1(a)_02.gif

Template-1(a)_02.gif

60 ms

Template-1(a)_03.jpg

Template-1(a)_03.jpg

59 ms

Template-1(a)_04.gif

Template-1(a)_04.gif

60 ms

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59 ms

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Template-1(a)_06.gif

61 ms

Template-1(a)_07.gif

Template-1(a)_07.gif

147 ms

Template-1(a)_08.gif

Template-1(a)_08.gif

71 ms

Template-1(a)_09.jpg

Template-1(a)_09.jpg

85 ms

Template-1(a)_10.jpg

Template-1(a)_10.jpg

88 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

88 ms

XSLogo_Bk.gif

XSLogo_Bk.gif

89 ms

Template-1(a)_12.gif

Template-1(a)_12.gif

121 ms

Template-1(a)_13.gif

Template-1(a)_13.gif

120 ms

portrait.jpg

portrait.jpg

131 ms

bullet2.gif

bullet2.gif

111 ms

pledge.jpg

pledge.jpg

127 ms

acp_member_color_(s).gif

acp_member_color_(s).gif

137 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

146 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

23 ms

t.php

t.php

89 ms

Accessibility Review

dowd-financial-planning.com accessibility score

67

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

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

dowd-financial-planning.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

dowd-financial-planning.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dowd-financial-planning.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Dowd-financial-planning.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

dowd-financial-planning.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dowd Financial Planning. 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: