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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

dcstamps.com

DCStamps - Dead Country Stamps and BanknotesDead Country Stamps and Banknotes » Featuring Histories, Stamps and Banknotes from Countries that no longe...

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

About Website

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

Welcome to DCStamps, a website designed as a resource for stamp and banknote collectors of countries which no longer exist — often defined as a “dead country”.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dcstamps.com page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 5 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

dcstamps.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.158

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dcstamps.com

164 ms

www.dcstamps.com

581 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

147 ms

style.css

240 ms

font-awesome.css

184 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Dcstamps.com, 49% (49 requests) were made to Secure.gravatar.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (660 ms) relates to the external source Secure.gravatar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

939.5 kB

After Optimization

643.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dcstamps.com main page is 939.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 487.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 200.0 kB

  • Original 243.0 kB
  • After minification 222.0 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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 200.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 36.3 kB

  • Original 487.9 kB
  • After minification 451.5 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. DCStamps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 166.2 kB
  • After minification 166.1 kB
  • After compression 125.2 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 41.0 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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. Dcstamps.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.7 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (76%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DCStamps. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dcstamps.com accessibility score

84

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

dcstamps.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

dcstamps.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Dcstamps.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 Dcstamps.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 data is detected on the main page of DCStamps. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: