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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

chicagodowel.com

Leading Manufacturer of Dowel Pins - Chicago Dowel Company

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

742 ms

Page Rendered

376 ms

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About Website

Welcome to chicagodowel.com homepage info - get ready to check Chicago Dowel best content right away, or after learning these important things about chicagodowel.com

Chicago Dowel Company is America's leading manufacturer of dowel pins including wood dowel pins, pre-glued dowel pins, and wood dowel rods.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chicagodowel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chicagodowel.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.582

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chicagodowel.com

97 ms

www.chicagodowel.com

173 ms

64f79d62511ac684b35641222ae96830.css

102 ms

css

43 ms

jquery.js

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Chicagodowel.com, 18% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (200 ms) belongs to the original domain Chicagodowel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

744.5 kB

After Optimization

678.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chicagodowel.com main page is 744.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 530.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 21.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 530.9 kB
  • After minification 515.0 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. Chicago Dowel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 137.5 kB
  • After minification 137.5 kB
  • After compression 118.1 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 19.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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. Chicagodowel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chicago Dowel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chicagodowel.com

chicagodowel.com

97 ms

www.chicagodowel.com

www.chicagodowel.com

173 ms

64f79d62511ac684b35641222ae96830.css

64f79d62511ac684b35641222ae96830.css

102 ms

css

css

43 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

200 ms

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128 ms

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128 ms

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127 ms

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129 ms

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135 ms

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142 ms

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143 ms

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174 ms

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176 ms

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177 ms

js

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63 ms

js

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127 ms

bkg-texture.jpg

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139 ms

CD-logo.png

CD-logo.png

139 ms

homepage-header.jpg

homepage-header.jpg

140 ms

wood-dowel-rods-feature.jpg

wood-dowel-rods-feature.jpg

142 ms

pre-glued-pins-feature.jpg

pre-glued-pins-feature.jpg

143 ms

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140 ms

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139 ms

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139 ms

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141 ms

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141 ms

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143 ms

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143 ms

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144 ms

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170 ms

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48 ms

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72 ms

Accessibility Review

chicagodowel.com accessibility score

85

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

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

chicagodowel.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

chicagodowel.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Chicagodowel.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 Chicagodowel.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

chicagodowel.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chicago Dowel. 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: