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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

dredgemag.com

The Waterways Journal - Weekly journal focused on inland marine, towboat, barge, river, shipbuilding, jobs, training maritime news

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

923 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dredgemag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 3.4 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

dredgemag.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value39.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.572

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dredgemag.com

56 ms

www.waterwaysjournal.net

1357 ms

js

70 ms

olytics.css

18 ms

olytics.min.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dredgemag.com, 60% (56 requests) were made to Waterwaysjournal.net and 18% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.bunny.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Waterwaysjournal.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 968.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

9.6 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dredgemag.com main page is 9.6 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 8.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 210.7 kB

  • Original 238.3 kB
  • After minification 213.9 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 210.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 416.7 kB

  • Original 8.1 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Dredgemag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 333.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 709.2 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 333.2 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 158.6 kB
  • After minification 158.3 kB
  • After compression 151.0 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. Dredgemag.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (72%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dredgemag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dredgemag.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

dredgemag.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

dredgemag.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Dredgemag.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 Dredgemag.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 Dredgemag. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: