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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

blog.dogwatch.com

DogTails | The Pet Parents Blog from DogWatch® Hidden Fences

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

684 ms

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About Website

Visit blog.dogwatch.com now to see the best up-to-date Blog Dog Watch content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blog.dogwatch.com

The Blog for Pet Parents from DogWatch® Hidden Fences. Providing readers with helpful tips, pet news, engaging photos and videos, and more since 2010!

Visit blog.dogwatch.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.dogwatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.dogwatch.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.dogwatch.com

138 ms

dogtails

349 ms

745 ms

cat-posts.css

66 ms

styles.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.dogwatch.com, 53% (52 requests) were made to Dogwatch.com and 12% (12 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (745 ms) relates to the external source Dogwatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 556.7 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

785.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.dogwatch.com main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 598.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 46.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 598.3 kB
  • After minification 593.5 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. Blog Dog Watch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 406.9 kB

  • Original 563.9 kB
  • After minification 491.2 kB
  • After compression 157.1 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 406.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 109.8 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. Blog.dogwatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (72%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Dog Watch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.dogwatch.com

blog.dogwatch.com

138 ms

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dogtails

349 ms

745 ms

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cat-posts.css

66 ms

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styles.css

95 ms

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lightbox.css

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103 ms

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Accessibility Review

blog.dogwatch.com accessibility score

74

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

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

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

blog.dogwatch.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

blog.dogwatch.com SEO score

100

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

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 Blog.dogwatch.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 Blog.dogwatch.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

blog.dogwatch.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blog Dog Watch. 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: