Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

definitions.net

Definitions.net

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

8.8 sec

Page Rendered

372 ms

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About Website

Visit definitions.net now to see the best up-to-date Definitions content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about definitions.net

Free online dictionary with definitions from many resources and in more than 20 different languages, including audio pronunciations, translations, etymologies, usage examples and more ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Definitions.net page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

definitions.net performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

definitions.net

14 ms

www.definitions.net

35 ms

bootstrap-3.4.1.min.css

54 ms

latest.js

67 ms

pub-6071864913982699

233 ms

Our browser made a total of 288 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (199 requests) were addressed to the original Definitions.net, 17% (50 requests) were made to Static.stands4.com and 3% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Definitions.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 264.4 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Definitions.net 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. 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. Javascripts take 807.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 262.6 kB

  • Original 300.1 kB
  • After minification 293.9 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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 262.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 145.0 kB
  • After minification 144.0 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. Definitions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 686 B

  • Original 807.3 kB
  • After minification 807.3 kB
  • After compression 806.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 97 B

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 37.6 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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. Definitions.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (18%)

Requests Now

274

After Optimization

226

The browser has sent 274 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Definitions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

definitions.net accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

definitions.net 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

definitions.net SEO score

96

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

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 Definitions.net 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 Definitions.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Definitions. 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: