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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

dotexpat.com

dotExpat - Network of expat websites and community services

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

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About Website

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DOTEXPAT edits and manages a series of expat websites with community facilities and international services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dotexpat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dotexpat.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dotexpat.com

208 ms

dotexpat.com

345 ms

default.php

431 ms

bootstrap.min.css

326 ms

style_de.css

341 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Dotexpat.com, 20% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (906 ms) belongs to the original domain Dotexpat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dotexpat.com main page is 2.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 10.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.5 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. Obviously, DotExpat needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 55% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 105.9 kB

  • Original 156.0 kB
  • After minification 155.0 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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 105.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 141.4 kB

  • Original 167.1 kB
  • After minification 150.6 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. Dotexpat.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (47%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DotExpat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dotexpat.com

dotexpat.com

208 ms

dotexpat.com

dotexpat.com

345 ms

default.php

default.php

431 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

326 ms

style_de.css

style_de.css

341 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.css

jquery.mmenu.all.css

341 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

278 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

28 ms

inc_script_ee.js

inc_script_ee.js

298 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

574 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

442 ms

jquery.mmenu.min.all.js

jquery.mmenu.min.all.js

461 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

25 ms

dotexpat_logo.gif

dotexpat_logo.gif

84 ms

flag_en.png

flag_en.png

247 ms

flag_fr.png

flag_fr.png

167 ms

bg_home.png

bg_home.png

494 ms

easyexpat_en.png

easyexpat_en.png

906 ms

blogexpat_en.png

blogexpat_en.png

903 ms

expatquotes.png

expatquotes.png

494 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

184 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

263 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

18 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

19 ms

light-top.css

light-top.css

16 ms

Accessibility Review

dotexpat.com accessibility score

67

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

dotexpat.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

dotexpat.com SEO score

85

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 Dotexpat.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 Dotexpat.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

dotexpat.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of DotExpat. 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: