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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

dirtconnections.com

Dirt Connections - VA & MD Fill Dirt Delivery & Inground Pool Removal

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

About Website

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Dirt Connections specializes in fill dirt delivery, land grading and inground pool removal for Northern Virginia and Maryland residents.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dirtconnections.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dirtconnections.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dirtconnections.com

29 ms

www.dirtconnections.com

332 ms

google-review.css

68 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

73 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 172 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Dirtconnections.com, 28% (48 requests) were made to S15485.pcdn.co and 9% (15 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Lh6.googleusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dirtconnections.com main page is 1.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Dirt Connections images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 345.8 kB
  • After minification 345.8 kB
  • After compression 340.8 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

-21%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Dirtconnections.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (52%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

52

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dirt Connections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dirtconnections.com accessibility score

92

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

dirtconnections.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

dirtconnections.com SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dirtconnections.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 Dirtconnections.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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