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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

dfaca.com

Dimensional Fund Advisors | Dimensional

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dfaca.com page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dfaca.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.384

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ca.dimensional.com

99 ms

en

146 ms

fonts.css

72 ms

global.min.css

612 ms

picturefill.min.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Dfaca.com, 14% (11 requests) were made to and 12% (9 requests) were made to Videos.dimensional.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (819 ms) relates to the external source Videos.dimensional.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 171.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dfaca.com main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.1 kB

  • Original 98.0 kB
  • After minification 79.2 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.9 kB, which is 19% 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 80.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Dfaca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 6.1 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 193.2 kB
  • After minification 193.2 kB
  • After compression 119.9 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. Dfaca.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.3 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (21%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dfaca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ca.dimensional.com

ca.dimensional.com

99 ms

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146 ms

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72 ms

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44 ms

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41 ms

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281 ms

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Accessibility Review

dfaca.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

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

dfaca.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dfaca.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Dfaca.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 Dfaca.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

dfaca.com

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