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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

977 ms

Page Rendered

102 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dobbs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dobbs.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dobbs.com

220 ms

www.dobbs.com

277 ms

smart-forms.css

121 ms

font-awesome.min.css

186 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Dobbs.com, 33% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (277 ms) belongs to the original domain Dobbs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

136.0 kB

After Optimization

112.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dobbs.com main page is 136.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 56.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.4 kB, which is 18% 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 11.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 56.2 kB
  • After minification 47.2 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. Obviously, Dobbs needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8 B

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 45.6 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. Dobbs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.9 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dobbs. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

dobbs.com

dobbs.com

220 ms

www.dobbs.com

www.dobbs.com

277 ms

smart-forms.css

smart-forms.css

121 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

186 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

246 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

189 ms

additional-methods.min.js

additional-methods.min.js

189 ms

css

css

34 ms

dark.png

dark.png

61 ms

underconstruction.png

underconstruction.png

180 ms

foobg.png

foobg.png

61 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

19 ms

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23 ms

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26 ms

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33 ms

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31 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc9.ttf

33 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

181 ms

Accessibility Review

dobbs.com accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

dobbs.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

SEO Factors

dobbs.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dobbs.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Dobbs.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 description is not detected on the main page of Dobbs. 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: