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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

dowd.com

The Dowd Agencies | Insurance & Employee Benefits

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

895 ms

Page Rendered

589 ms

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About Website

Welcome to dowd.com homepage info - get ready to check Dowd best content right away, or after learning these important things about dowd.com

The Dowd Agencies offers a professional team of fully licensed and certified insurance and financial services agents and brokers. Built on trust since 1898.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dowd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dowd.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,600 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.001

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dowd.com

47 ms

www.dowd.com

120 ms

js

51 ms

js

92 ms

style.min.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Dowd.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (308 ms) belongs to the original domain Dowd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dowd.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. 75% 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 829.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 114.6 kB

  • Original 140.9 kB
  • After minification 135.1 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 114.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 829.2 kB
  • After minification 793.0 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. Dowd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 392.0 kB
  • After minification 392.0 kB
  • After compression 384.4 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 51.8 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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. Dowd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (60%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dowd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dowd.com

dowd.com

47 ms

www.dowd.com

www.dowd.com

120 ms

js

js

51 ms

js

js

92 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

25 ms

styles.css

styles.css

27 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

cookie-law-info-public.css

23 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

42 ms

settings.css

settings.css

38 ms

simple-banner.css

simple-banner.css

33 ms

front-flex.min.css

front-flex.min.css

36 ms

style.css

style.css

35 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

36 ms

core.css

core.css

60 ms

custom.css

custom.css

61 ms

default.css

default.css

68 ms

style.css

style.css

61 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

70 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

81 ms

cookie-law-info-public.js

cookie-law-info-public.js

85 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

86 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

115 ms

simple-banner.js

simple-banner.js

132 ms

main.js

main.js

118 ms

js

js

84 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

130 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

130 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

137 ms

css

css

78 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

128 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

207 ms

index.js

index.js

206 ms

index.js

index.js

209 ms

instantpage.js

instantpage.js

308 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

210 ms

api.js

api.js

121 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

211 ms

index.js

index.js

210 ms

widget.js

widget.js

72 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

283 ms

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Dowd-Agencies-insurance-employee_benefits-Investments.png

217 ms

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212 ms

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ING_32194_02538-1.jpg

207 ms

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207 ms

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18044434_DOWD-120AnniversarySlider-2048x900.jpg

208 ms

003154_DOWD_125th-AnniversaryLogo_125-Years-BW.png

003154_DOWD_125th-AnniversaryLogo_125-Years-BW.png

216 ms

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iStock-872905048.jpg

208 ms

testimonial-starts.png

testimonial-starts.png

207 ms

Personal-Vehicle-Insurance.jpg

Personal-Vehicle-Insurance.jpg

209 ms

readmore-bk.png

readmore-bk.png

211 ms

homeowner-insurance.jpg

homeowner-insurance.jpg

210 ms

cyber-liability-insurance.jpg

cyber-liability-insurance.jpg

211 ms

group-health-insurance-960.jpg

group-health-insurance-960.jpg

212 ms

personal-insurance.jpg

personal-insurance.jpg

212 ms

business-insurance.jpg

business-insurance.jpg

216 ms

financial-services-home.jpg

financial-services-home.jpg

212 ms

008323_Dowd_RetirementPlanningBeyond401ksCC-Blog-300x169.jpg

008323_Dowd_RetirementPlanningBeyond401ksCC-Blog-300x169.jpg

215 ms

dowd-footer-logo.png

dowd-footer-logo.png

214 ms

social-media-icons.png

social-media-icons.png

214 ms

revolution.extension.slideanims.min.js

revolution.extension.slideanims.min.js

117 ms

revolution.extension.layeranimation.min.js

revolution.extension.layeranimation.min.js

120 ms

revolution.extension.navigation.min.js

revolution.extension.navigation.min.js

118 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

121 ms

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56 ms

revicons.woff

revicons.woff

36 ms

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46 ms

Accessibility Review

dowd.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dowd.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

dowd.com 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

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

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 Dowd.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 Dowd.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

dowd.com

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