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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

dashes.com

Anil Dash

Page Load Speed

70.1 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

52.2 sec

Page Rendered

17.7 sec

dashes.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to dashes.com homepage info - get ready to check Dash Es best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about dashes.com

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dashes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 69.9 sec 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. Unfortunately, there were 13 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

dashes.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value700 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dashes.com

182 ms

anildash.com

369 ms

bootstrap.min.css

757 ms

2014.css

540 ms

css

454 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dashes.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Web-player.art19.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (30.3 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (65%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

646.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dashes.com main page is 1.9 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. CSS take 859.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 116.5 kB

  • Original 139.6 kB
  • After minification 118.6 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.0 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 116.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 272 B

  • Original 75.1 kB
  • After minification 74.9 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. Dash Es images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 525.8 kB

  • Original 778.2 kB
  • After minification 778.1 kB
  • After compression 252.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 525.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 563.9 kB

  • Original 859.5 kB
  • After minification 857.9 kB
  • After compression 295.7 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. Dashes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 563.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (56%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dash Es. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dashes.com

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Accessibility Review

dashes.com accessibility score

96

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

Best Practices

dashes.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dashes.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 Dashes.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 Dashes.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

dashes.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Dash Es. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: