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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

duckduckgo.com

DuckDuckGo

Page Load Speed

264 ms in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

198 ms

Page Rendered

56 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Duckduckgo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 254 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

duckduckgo.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

duckduckgo.com

10 ms

duckduckgo.com

28 ms

static_err_global

21 ms

aa9cc5f1c7192be9.css

6 ms

c6f5be69bea1c7bd.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Duckduckgo.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Improving.duckduckgo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (105 ms) belongs to the original domain Duckduckgo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 209.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

714.5 kB

After Optimization

505.3 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Duckduckgo.com main page is 714.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 591.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 92.9 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. 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 75.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 128.9 kB

  • Original 591.6 kB
  • After minification 591.6 kB
  • After compression 462.6 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 128.9 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Duckduckgo.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (89%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Duck Go. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

duckduckgo.com accessibility score

92

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

duckduckgo.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

duckduckgo.com SEO score

90

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Duckduckgo.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Duckduckgo.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 description is not detected on the main page of Duck Go. 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: