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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

dotdash.ie

Digital Marketing Agency Dublin, Ireland - Dot Dash

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

28 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

724 ms

dotdash.ie screenshot

About Website

Visit dotdash.ie now to see the best up-to-date Dot Dash content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dotdash.ie

Dot Dash is a Digital Marketing Agency. We work with companies who want help with web design, content, email marketing, search or social media marketing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dotdash.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 28 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dotdash.ie performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dotdash.ie

28 ms

www.dotdash.ie

600 ms

fuq7hfa.css

302 ms

style.css

749 ms

loftloader.min.css

484 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Dotdash.ie, 20% (19 requests) were made to Encore.scdn.co and 16% (15 requests) were made to Embed-cdn.spotifycdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Dotdash.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dotdash.ie main page is 2.7 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. 80% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 64.6 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 50.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Dot Dash images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 872.0 kB
  • After minification 872.0 kB
  • After compression 869.0 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 85.9 kB
  • After minification 85.9 kB
  • After compression 83.4 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. Dotdash.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (62%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dot Dash. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

dotdash.ie accessibility score

87

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dotdash.ie best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dotdash.ie SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dotdash.ie 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 Dotdash.ie 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

dotdash.ie

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