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Visit dcist.com now to see the best up-to-date DCist content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dcist.com
DCist covers news, city politics, arts, events, culture, and curiosities in Washington, D.C. The site is owned by WAMU 88.5.
Visit dcist.comWe analyzed Dcist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Dcist.com, 22% (21 requests) were made to Assets.gothamistllc.com and 10% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Dcist.com.
Page size can be reduced by 435.7 kB (10%)
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In fact, the total size of Dcist.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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 38.9 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 38.9 kB or 77% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 109.0 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. DCist images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 196.1 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 196.1 kB or 63% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 91.6 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. Dcist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 91.6 kB or 83% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (51%)
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The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DCist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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dcist.com accessibility score
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.
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Buttons do not have an accessible name
Links do not have a discernible name
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
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Issue
[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique
dcist.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
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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/).
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Issue
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dcist.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Dcist.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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of DCist. 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: