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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

dixiechemical.com

Dixie Chemical Company - A Premier Provider of Specialty Chemicals

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

213 ms

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About Website

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We Create High Performance Specialty Chemicals. Dixie Chemical has been a proven performer with complex chemistries since the 1940s. With our extensive lab capabilities, outstanding staff, and steadfa...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dixiechemical.com page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dixiechemical.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dixiechemical.com

14 ms

dixiechemical.com

973 ms

autoptimize_c5760c73ef3f76a4a517006234931bad.css

7 ms

4b484d6963439a3f4069a620665ff852.min.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Dixiechemical.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (973 ms) belongs to the original domain Dixiechemical.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

963.7 kB

After Optimization

820.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dixiechemical.com main page is 963.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 400.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 74.5 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 86.7 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 74.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 400.1 kB
  • After minification 397.7 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. Dixie Chemical images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 238.3 kB
  • After minification 238.3 kB
  • After compression 213.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 238.6 kB
  • After minification 238.6 kB
  • After compression 197.0 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. Dixiechemical.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (44%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dixie Chemical. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dixiechemical.com

dixiechemical.com

14 ms

dixiechemical.com

dixiechemical.com

973 ms

autoptimize_c5760c73ef3f76a4a517006234931bad.css

autoptimize_c5760c73ef3f76a4a517006234931bad.css

7 ms

4b484d6963439a3f4069a620665ff852.min.css

4b484d6963439a3f4069a620665ff852.min.css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

64 ms

js

js

108 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

15 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

22 ms

api.js

api.js

124 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

22 ms

autoptimize_c5a924cd5562cbb4b9e10803512125b1.js

autoptimize_c5a924cd5562cbb4b9e10803512125b1.js

99 ms

454450426

454450426

264 ms

Dixie-Logo-175px.png

Dixie-Logo-175px.png

59 ms

Nav-Markets.jpg

Nav-Markets.jpg

178 ms

Nav-Community.jpg

Nav-Community.jpg

61 ms

Nav-Safety.jpg

Nav-Safety.jpg

67 ms

Nav-About-1.jpg

Nav-About-1.jpg

129 ms

Nav-Contact-Dixie-Plant.jpg

Nav-Contact-Dixie-Plant.jpg

177 ms

Nav-Community.jpg

Nav-Community.jpg

6 ms

Nav-Safety.jpg

Nav-Safety.jpg

4 ms

Nav-About-1.jpg

Nav-About-1.jpg

5 ms

Nav-Markets.jpg

Nav-Markets.jpg

4 ms

Nav-Contact-Dixie-Plant.jpg

Nav-Contact-Dixie-Plant.jpg

14 ms

awb-icons.woff

awb-icons.woff

4 ms

api.js

api.js

12 ms

Accessibility Review

dixiechemical.com accessibility score

92

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dixiechemical.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

dixiechemical.com SEO score

93

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

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 Dixiechemical.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 Dixiechemical.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

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