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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thedirtconnection.com

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Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedirtconnection.com page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedirtconnection.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedirtconnection.com

177 ms

thedirtconnection.com

897 ms

fdb10467fdbc7947d9177a3afa9a385a.css

359 ms

css

27 ms

style.min.css

209 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Thedirtconnection.com, 12% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (897 ms) belongs to the original domain Thedirtconnection.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 282.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedirtconnection.com main page is 4.3 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 114.7 kB

  • Original 137.3 kB
  • After minification 129.7 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 114.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. The Dirt Connection images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 214.3 kB
  • After minification 214.3 kB
  • After compression 212.4 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

-97%

Potential reduce by 163.0 kB

  • Original 168.2 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Thedirtconnection.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.0 kB or 97% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (25%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

68

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Dirt Connection. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thedirtconnection.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

thedirtconnection.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thedirtconnection.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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thedirtconnection.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 Thedirtconnection.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 The Dirt Connection. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: